Ambivalent joint production and the natural environment: an economic and thermodynamic analysis
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Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 2000. 321 p. (Contributions to Economics).
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Ambivalent joint production and the natural environment
T2 - an economic and thermodynamic analysis
AU - Baumgärtner, Stefan
N1 - Literaturverz. S. [295] - 321
PY - 2000/1/1
Y1 - 2000/1/1
N2 - Many environmental damages are caused by substances which come into existence as undesired joint outputs in the production of desired goods. Whether an output is desired or not, however, is not an inherent property of the substance itself but depends on the context of production. This book studies the role of a potential ambivalence of joint outputs for the description and analysis of dynamic economy-environment interactions and for the design of efficient environmental policy. This is done in an interisciplinary way: methods and insights from thermodynamics, engineering sciences, economics and the methodology of economics are combined in order to develop an encompassing view on the complex and multivarious phenomenon of ambivalent joint production. By using the concept of joint production as a unifying framework for describing and analyzing the relations between human economic activity and the surrounding natural environment this book contributes to a critical and constructive assessment of the traditional environmental economic approach.
AB - Many environmental damages are caused by substances which come into existence as undesired joint outputs in the production of desired goods. Whether an output is desired or not, however, is not an inherent property of the substance itself but depends on the context of production. This book studies the role of a potential ambivalence of joint outputs for the description and analysis of dynamic economy-environment interactions and for the design of efficient environmental policy. This is done in an interisciplinary way: methods and insights from thermodynamics, engineering sciences, economics and the methodology of economics are combined in order to develop an encompassing view on the complex and multivarious phenomenon of ambivalent joint production. By using the concept of joint production as a unifying framework for describing and analyzing the relations between human economic activity and the surrounding natural environment this book contributes to a critical and constructive assessment of the traditional environmental economic approach.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - adam smith
KW - alfred marshall
KW - johann heinrich von Thünen
KW - Karl Marx
KW - duality
KW - economic theory
KW - economics
KW - environment
KW - environmental policy
KW - equilibrium
KW - general equilibrium
KW - Modeling
KW - strategy
KW - thermodynamics
KW - Welfare
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-57658-4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-57658-4
M3 - Book
SN - 978-3-7908-1290-9
SN - 3790812900
T3 - Contributions to Economics
BT - Ambivalent joint production and the natural environment
PB - Physica-Verlag
CY - Heidelberg
ER -