In this article we compare the current debate about global warming with the earlier discourse of Limits to Growth (LtG) of the 1970's. We are especially interested in the similarities of and differences between the two cases and therefore compare the policy challenges and lessons to be drawn....

Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways -- Chapter 2 Ricardo’s Rent -- Chapter 3 Von Thunen’s Spatial Land Use: Grasslands and Cities -- Chapter 4 Faustmann’s Forest Harvest Rotation -- Chapter 5 Hotelling’s Fossil Fuel Economics -- Chapter 6 Fisheries...

Wie soll die Ökonomie der Zukunft aussehen? Die Autorinnen aus der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung kritisieren die Annahme der "grünen Ökonomie", dass technologische Innovationen ausreichend seien, um die notwendige Transformation unserer Wirtschaft im Sinne einer politischen Ökologie zu erreichen....

This paper presents a two-sector green endogenous growth model to explore a mechanism that explains why carbon-intensive capital is not necessarily shut down during transition to a green economy. Without accumulating clean capital to offset carbon emissions, a tightening of climate regulation...