This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological
economics from a Marxist point of view, and shows how Marxist
political economy can make a substantial contribution to ecological
economics. The analysis is developed in terms of four basic issues:
(1) nature and economic value; (2) the treatment of nature as
capital; (3) the significance of the entropy law for economic
systems; (4) the concept of sustainable development. In each case,
it is shown that Marxism can help ecological economics fulfill its
commitments to multi-disciplinarity, methodological pluralism, and
historical openness. In this way, a foundation is constructed for a
substantive dialogue between Marxists and ecological
economists.
Paul Burkett, Ph.D. (1984) in Economics, Syracuse University, is
Professor of Economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute.
His publications on Marxism and ecology include Marx and Nature: A
Red and Green Perspective (St. Martin's Press, 1999) and many
articles in scholarly journals.
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