Man and the Biosphere:: Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9781563240232 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 336 str.

Kenneth M. Stokes

Opis

This four-part monograph traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the Physiocrats through Marx to the present. It is a broad treatment of the history of intellectual thought that bridges economic and the social sciences on the one hand, with natural science and biology in particular on the other. The author is concerned with systems theory and treats the economy from the perspective of the biophysical thermodynamic dimensions of the economic processes.

Spis treści

1: Philosophical Origins of Open-Systems Economic Analysis; 2: Broadening Economic Analysis: The Early Contribution of the General Theory of Organization; 3: Neo-Physiocratic and Biophysical Models of the Economic Process; 4: Beyond Entropy and the Economic Process: Broadening Economic Analysis from a Systems Theoretical Approach; 5: General Conclusions

O autorze

Kenneth M. Stokes