Environment and ecology in the history of economic thought: reassessing the legacy of the classics

Table of Contents:

PART I: Classical political economy and the surplus approach

1. Introduction

Vitor Eduardo Schincariol

2. Adam Smith as ecological economist

Leo Steeds

3. On the accommodation of the ecological question in the Sraffian tradition

Chandni Dwarkasing



PART II: Institutional and post-Keynesian economics

4. Ecology and environment in home economics

David Philippy and Marco P. Vianna Franco

5. Nature, exploitation and institutions: on the political ecology of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Polanyi

Manuel Ramon Souza Luz and Ramon Garcia Fernandez

6. Principles for building a post-Keynesian environmental macroeconomics: revisiting Keynes in times of crises

Marcio Alvarenga Junior and Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young

7. Environment, development and equity in the work of Geoff Harcourt

Shachi Amdekar and Matthew Fright



PART III: Economic development

8. Reflections on economic development and environment

Alessandro Roncaglia and (late) Paolo Sylos Labini

9. Celso Furtado on natural resources, the environment and ecology: economic development between myth and utopia

Vitor Eduardo Schincariol

10. The evolution of the ecological perspective in Latin American Structuralism

Gabriel Porcile and Miguel Torres

11. Bioeconomic and resilient development strategies in face of Covid-19 in the South: the example of Senegal

Abdourahmane Ndiaye and Muhammad Ba

This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development.

Many of the contributors to this book focus on thinkers and works which are not typically considered as part of the ecological sphere, while others consider such economists in a new light or domain. Thus, the book elucidates a new and useful research field of reconsidering ecological dimensions in the traditional history of economic thought as well as helping to delineate alternative views for ongoing debates on ecological themes. Did Veblen, Keynes, Sraffa, C. Furtado and other key economists and schools of thought of our age have relevant and useful insights with respect to environmental issues? Which aspects of their intellectual legacies should eventually be discarded in the face of our new environmental challenges? On the contrary, what aspects of their economic theories can be updated and adapted to a better interpretation of our present ecological concerns? How do they differ, and why? The essays contained in this book will help to answer these questions, by means of recovering, analysing and updating the work of some of the most relevant heterodox economists and schools of thought of our time.

This book will be of great interest for readers in the history of economic thought, ecological economics, environmental economics and economic development.

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