By Paul Robert Gilbert, Uneven Earth
Discounting models that posit representative world consumers, or even ‘globally impartial decision makers’ attentive to global inequalities, remain wedded to neoclassical understandings of economics that reduces human life to a matter of individual consumption choices, and reduces the nonhuman world to substitutable ‘natural capital’.
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
One of the greatest and most overwhelming conceptual breakthroughs of my life was the realization that everything in our universe is connected and interacting in networks of interdependent cause and effect through time.
By David Haenke, Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
Ecology and economics come from the same root word. Hopefully before it’s too late, humanity will see that good economics must be also good ecology: ECO-ECONOMICS. This is the “unified field theory” and practice for economics.
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience
This is the main notion, and the importance, of resilience. The whole life process is one of ongoing disequilibrium movement to which we must adapt to survive.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
It only took us a century to use up the best of the planet’s finite reserves of fossil fuels. The dawning century will be a lot different.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
From its beginnings more than five centuries ago, European colonization has been based on an unsustainable exploitation of resources.
By Katy Shields, Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
At the time of Seneca, rhetoric was perhaps the main skill of a man of culture: the capability of debating was valued and practiced.
By Caroline Whyte, Feasta
If I’m asked about the role economics plays in the environment and sustainability, my answer would be ‘what kind of economics are you talking about’?
By Julie Nelson, Jamie Morgan, Real World Economics Review
It’s much easier to teach students how to shift curves, solve equations, and run regressions, than to carefully observe economic life and think deeply and critically about it. Students also tend to feel comfortable – and even feel powerful – when told “here, we are handing you the exact tools and models you need to use to understand how the economy works.”
By Aaron Karp, The Trouble
Mainstream economics offers no solutions to climate chaos; ecological economics envisions a path forward.
By Anitra Nelson, Brian Coffey, The Conversation
As environmental crises and the urgency to create ecological sustainability escalate, so does the importance of ecological economics. This applied, solutions-based field of studies is concerned with sustainability and development, rather than efficiency and growth.
By Leah Temper, Sam Bliss, Uneven Earth
In their textbook Ecological Economics, Herman Daly and Josh Farley list sustainability and justice as the field’s first two goals. If the GND’s goal is to facilitate, through policy, the transition to a socially equitable low-carbon economy, then ecological economics basically bills itself as the science of the Green New Deal.