The origins of ecological economics : the bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen / Kozo Mayumi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayumi, Kozo, 1954-

Series:

Routledge research in environmental economics ; 1.

Routledge research in environmental economics ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas.

Economists--United States.

Economists.

United States.

Environmental economics.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

xii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Contents:

2 Foundations of consumer choice theory for environmental valuation in view of Georgescu-Roegen's contribution 7

3 Conditions for balanced sustained growth of the open Leontief dynamic model and investigation on a Leontief dynamic model with two delays 21

4 Information, pseudo-measures and entropy: an elaboration on Georgescu-Roegen's critique 32

5 A critical appraisal of two entropy theoretical approaches to resources and environmental problems: Georgescu-Roegen and Tsuchida 45

6 Embodied energy analysis, Sraffa's analysis, Georgescu-Roegen's flow-fund model and viability of solar technology 65

7 Land: Achilles' Heel of ecology and economy 79

8 Environment and North-South trade: another view 97

9 Modelling relation, hierarchical systems and bioeconomic approach to sustainability issues 108

Appendix A Integral curves around a saturation point 126

Appendix B Conditions for balanced sustained growth of the open dynamic Leontief model 130

Appendix C A Leontief dynamic model with two delays 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-155) and index.

ISBN:

0415235235

OCLC:

45620661