Autor: Goodwin Neva R. Goodwin

Perpetual economic growth is physically impossible on a planet with finite resources. Many concerned with humanity’s future have focused on the concept of "sustainable development" as an …

The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world’s resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater …

The emergent discipline of ecological economics is based on the idea that the world’s economies are a function of the earth’s ecosystems — an idea that radically reverses the world view of …

What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal …