The History of Thought in Environmental Economics

Author: Kula
Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
内容简介:
The author is very familiar with the history of economic thought, especially the history of environmental issues. The narrative throughout the book is permeated with historical knowledge and theoretical analysis. There are both macro examples and micro case studies, and the author's writing is concise yet to the point. His analysis and reasoning closely reflect the logic, utility, and characteristics of environmental economics.
目录:
Some Thoughts on Environmental Philosophy (As Preface)
Translator's Preface
Foreword and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Early Period
The Roman Empire and the Middle Ages
Mercantilism
Physiocracy
Liberalism
Adam Smith
Chapter 2 Malthus's Dilemma
The Theory of Population
A Leap in Time and Space: Malthus and Contemporary China
Another Leap: The Next Stage
Chapter 3 Ricardo's Stagnation
David Ricardo
Opposing Ricardo's Stagnation
Classical Economists Who Essentially Supported the Stagnation Theory
An Alternative View of Scarcity: The American Conservation Movement (1890-1920)
Chapter 4 Socialism, Marxism, and the Environment
Early Socialists
Karl Marx
A Leap in Time and Space: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union before and after the Cold War and the Environment
Chapter 5 Natural Resources and the Environment in the Neoclassical Economic Tradition
B?hm-Bawerk
Solli
Marshall
Gray
Taussig and Cassel
Hotelling
Chapter 6 Interventionist Schools on Natural Resources and the Environment
Pigou
Keynes's Vision of the Future
Galbraith
Mishan
The Modest State: Baumol and Oates
Chapter 7 Market Environmentalism Based on Ownership
The Coase Theorem
Controlling Pollution through Market Licenses
Market Access and Rights-Based Fisheries
Chapter 8 Post-WWII Empirical Studies on Scarcity
Policy Reports by the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers
Porter and Christy
Barnett and Morse
Nordhaus and Others
The U.S. Bureau of Mines
Indicated Reserves and Estimated Reserves
Chapter 9 Spaceship Earth
Boulding's Ecological Economy
Forrester's System Dynamics
The Club of Rome
Criticism of The Limits to Growth
The Optimistic Passengers on Spaceship Earth
Chapter 10 Debates Surrounding Sustainability
Certain Explicitly Stated Aims
Several Definitions That Embody Future Generations
Historical Roots of the Current Debate
Where the Current Debate Differs
Chapter 11 Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Environmental Development
Judeo-Christian Theology and the Environment
Islam
Eastern Beliefs
Secular Ethics
Gaia
Deep Ecology
Land Ethic
Feminism and the Environment
The Selfish Gene
Chapter 12 Summary and Conclusion
Earth's Past Experiences
Recent "Evidence"
Chinese-English Comparative Table
References
Postscript