What Is Ecological Economics?
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- What is ecological economics, and how does it differ from mainstream (or neoclassical) economics? Ecological economics began in part as an attempt to bring together ecology and economics - to bridge the gap between a natural and social science. Today it a transdisciplinary field that covers topics from degrowth to the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. In this short lecture, I discuss the history, fundamental vision, and modern focus of ecological economics.
A great overview of this extremely important field. Blessed to say I will be studying environmental economics and policy in college to hopefully add to this movement
What I have learnt in your video in few minutes is more than the hours I have put in on Nights and nights of journals readings! Thank you immensely
Thanks Dan! As a graduated engineer from the 60's I am glad I finally found a video from which I can learn what was not taught at my university.
I have been looking for study material with good video on ecological econmocs for sometime. Grateful to find this channel! It is very difficult to find affordable online course for someone who comes from the global south. Thank you professor :)
Best introduction to the topic out there, love your work Dan! You should create an ecological economics crashcourse for people who can't afford 25,000 euros for the MSc in Leeds... Brexit :(
The fundamental idea seems spot on to me
Definitely one of the nicest introduction I have seen !! I would love a video on how EE is being applied concretely (tools, methods and modelling approaches) as well as the similarities and differences with Circular Economy / Industrial Ecology.
Thank you so much for making this video! It was a good introduction to the field! I will be joining the MSc. Ecological Economics programme at Leeds this September! Super excited !
I'm in his economics and sustainability module this year, its been super facsinating!
I'm considering MSc. Ecological Economics, did you enjoy it and do you think it was worth it?
I love this guy!
Thank you! I'll show this and/or other videos of yours to my students.
Great introduction to the subject, thank you!
Great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Clear and useful, thank you! I will cite it in my book.
Excellent content, thank you.
Dear Prof. Dr. Dan O'Neill, thanks you for your videos, are quite useful. I am teaching Environment and Economics, some topics about Environmental Economics, Economics and Natural Resources, Green Economics, Ecological Economics and Circular Economics. At Faculty of Economics in Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (MX). Greetings.
Interesting stuff. I'm in the process of applying the principles of cybernetics to thermoeconomics in some private research.
Thibk about it: economic structures based on sound science that are geared towards stability over time. That would be profound.
You should check out viability theory, both the management theory by people like Stafford Beer as well as the formal mathematical theory by Aubin. Also fields like Industrial ecology which looks at forming symbiotic relationships between firms as well as forming closed loop material flows through an economy at different scales. Might help with your research.
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Ah! I'm very familiar with Beer and the VSM, but I haven't heard of Aubin, I'll definitely take a look.
There are definitely better ways than what we do now, it's just a matter of figuring it out. Thank you for the additional information!
Thank you so much for the video 😇
Great voice and great introduction! What do you think from Prof. Rees book?
Thanks Dan for your very interesting lecture and channel! I'm very curious to hear your opinion about the ECG (Economy for the Common Good) initiated by Christian Felber. Do you think that we could put it under the category of ecological economics?
I suggest:
1 First work out what kind of world and society we would want to create through economic activity.
2 Then try and achieve it.
3 Evolve by repeating 1 and 2
We could call this an ecosocial design process.
When you study advertising the three human weaknesses of greed fear and laziness are exploited. These need to be overcome in your new paradigm. How do you propose a solution?
Yep, this is the school of economics I am part of. Well behaviorist/ecological school.
It's hard to escape the notion that a lot of academic buzzwords such as degrowth and sustainability simply equate to reductionism and deprivation. No one can successfully argue that there should not be limits, it's just that there is no way to rationally set delimiters . Then the whole thing devolves into endless admonitions and activism followed by doomsday scenarios.
How, for example, can growth be set in reverse without creating an economic recession or worse? Who makes the determination that it is time to reverse course? We do know that government intervention has caused recessionary results in the past. That in turn gives rise to laissez faire arguments that economies are best left to manage themselves.
Then we get treated to babble about the lack of equality and the need to go back to interventionism. I could have predicted that the equality psychobabble would quickly follow along. It seems that is the desired end goal of ecological economics.
This misses key economic factors like technological growth and how earth we can harness a lot more than what we do now with nuclear and solar, now there are even sodium batteries.
This is the free market at work. But this just falls into economic fixed pie fallacy, but as a whole discipline.
Something bothers me about the donut diagram: the frontier of global warming should could very well be below the threshold of Wellington. Increasing the wellbeing while coping with the massive degrowth needed to avoid global warming, seems contradictory to me.