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"Basic Principles of Sustainable Development"
Harris, Jonathan M. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper explores what a critical commentary on micro principles texts might look like, examining what is to be critiqued and how to do it.
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New Markets, New Commons, New Ethics: A Guest Essay
Henderson, Hazel - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 4 (1991) 3
One major development in the upsurge of accounting interest in environmental issues has been a quantum leap in the recognition of the extent of the crucial role that economics plays in constituting accounting thought and practice. “Conventional” economics and its contribution to the...
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On the Quest for Knowledge and the Duty to Know
Rohrlich, George F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 5, pp. 56-59
The “social” component of economics comprises environmental concerns, employment needs, developmental musts and any agenda that results from differences in economic systems. Why is there so little in common between problems raised in the textbooks and the tools and objectives emerging from...
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Environmental Welfare Economics: Implications for Technology, Wages and Incomes
Krabbe, Jacob J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 1, pp. 49-58
The character of environmental welfare economics is addressed and the idea of “nature‐sparing” technology is examined; if the conservation of nature is to work then this kind of technology should replace nature‐affecting technologies. A theory to effect this is formulated and an...
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Ethics and economics
Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 2, pp. 40-60
Explains the exogenous and endogenous types of relationships between ethics and economics in neoclassical and non‐neoclassical framework. Studies market consequentialism, deontological preferences and polity‐market (ecology) interactions in recent developments in economic theory and...
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An interview with Clem Tisdell
Dollery, Brian; Wallis, Joe - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 4/5/6, pp. 20-48
Clem Tisdell is one of Australia’s pre‐eminent economists who has made decisive contributions in several areas of economics, perhaps most notably development economics, environmental economics and natural resource economics. Tisdell is presently Professor of Economics at the University of...
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Deforestation mechanisms: a survey
Wibowo, Dradjad H.; Byron, R. Neil - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 1/2/3, pp. 455-474
Tropical deforestation continues at a very alarming rate. Certain forms of deforestation are economically desirable, but economic criteria alone are not sufficient for deciding whether a deforestation project is desirable. Previous studies on deforestation mechanisms are grouped into four...
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Innovation and economic change
Pianta, Mario - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 26 (2017) 7/8, pp. 683-688
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Does Partner Type Matter in R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation?
Pippel, Gunnar - 2013
firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013
industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio … lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …
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