CHRISTIAN ECONOMISTS, ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES AND ECOLOGICAL SCALE

The environmental economic response to mainstream neo-classical economics’ disconnect from the natural world was to value external environmental costs and include those into decisions about human welfare. The ecological economic response, heavily influenced by systems ecology, brought the concept of...

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Main Author: de Wit, Martinus Petrus (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Philosophia reformata
Year: 2013, Volume: 78, Issue: 2, Pages: 179-195
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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