November 10 – Value and Ecological Economics

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. Here is the plan for class.

1 – Introduction and Check-In

2 – Overview of Embedding Economics, Biophysical Foundations of Socio-Economics, Value and Ecological Economics

3 – Chapter Discussions: 

[1] Brown, P., & Timmerman, P. (2015) Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm, Columbia University Press. Chapter 1 – The Ethics of Re-Embedding Economics in the Real: Case Studies (21 – 65)

[2] Melgar-Melgara, R. E., Hall, C. A. S. (2020) Why ecological economics needs to return to its roots: The biophysical foundation of socio-economic systems, Ecological Economics, 169.

[3] Wironen, Michael. B., & Erikson, J. D. (2020) A critically modern ecological economics for the Anthropocene, 7, 1.

[4] Pirgmaier, E. (2021) The Value of Value Theory for Ecological Economics, Ecological Economics, 179.

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