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The costs of economic growth / Peter A. Victor

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Elgar research reviews in economics | Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd, 2013Description: 1 Online-Ressource ; cmISBN:
  • 9781784710378
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: The costs of economic growth. Druck-Ausgabe. Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2013. XXVIII, 991 S.DDC classification:
  • 338.9 23
RVK: RVK: QC 340LOC classification:
  • HD82
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781784710378Online resources: Summary: This book is a convenient and comprehensive collection of seminal papers on the costs of economic growth. The papers are grouped in 6 sections covering: the origins of the debate, the limits to growth, measurement, international and global dimensions, developing countries, and looking ahead. The original introduction, written by the editor, draws out the main themes that run through this extensive and thought provoking literature. This timely collection is is intended for academics, students, researchers and anyone interested in this controversial topicSummary: Bédia F. Aka (2008), 'Effects of Trade and Growth on Air Pollution in the Aggregated Sub-Saharan Africa', International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, 5 (1), 5-14 -- Joysri Acharyya (2009), 'FDI, Growth and the Environment: Evidence from India on CO2 Emission During the Last Two Decades', Journal of Economic Development, 34 (1), June, 43-58 -- Zongguo Wen and Jining Chen (2008), 'A Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Economic Growth in China', Ecological Economics, 65 (2), April, 356-66 -- Sheng Zhao, Changwen Wu, Huasheng Hong and Luoping Zhang (2009), 'Linking the Concept of Ecological Footprint and Valuation of Ecosystem Services - A Case Study of Economic Growth and Natural Carrying Capacity', International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 16 (2), April, 137-42 -- Arthur P.J. Mol (2011), 'China's Ascent and Africa's Environment', Global Environmental Change, 21 (3), August, 785-94 -- Matthew A. Cole, Robert J.R. Elliott and Jing Zhang (2011), 'Growth, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Environment: Evidence from Chinese Cities', Journal of Regional Science, 51 (1), 121-38 -- Herman E. Daly (2001), 'Beyond Growth: Avoiding Uneconomic Growth', in Mohan Munasinghe, Osvaldo Sunkel and Carlos de Miguel (eds), The Sustainability of Long-Term Growth: Socioeconomic and Ecological Perspectives, Chapter 7, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 153-61 -- Roefie Hueting (2010), 'Why Environmental Sustainability Can Most Probably Not be Attained with Growing Production', Journal of Cleaner Production, 18 (6), April, 525-30 -- Sardar M.N. Islam, Mohan Munasinghe and Matthew Clarke (2003), 'Making Long-Term Economic Growth More Sustainable: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits', Ecological Economics, 47 (2-3), December, 149-66 -- A. Antoci, S. Borghesi and P. Russu (2005), 'Environmental Defensive Expenditures, Expectations and Growth', Population and Environment, 27 (2), November, 227-44 -- Stefano Bartolini (2007), 'Why are People So Unhappy? Why do they Strive so Hard for Money? Competing Explanations of the Broken Promises of Economic Growth', in Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta (eds), Handbook on the Economics of Happiness, Chapter 17, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 337-64 -- Tim Jackson (2008), 'Where is the "Wellbeing Dividend"? Nature, Structure and Consumption Inequalities', Local Environment, 13 (8), December, 703-23 -- Siak Smulders (1995), 'Entropy, Environment, and Endogenous Economic Growth', International Tax and Public Finance, 2 (2), August, 319-40 -- Roelof Boumans, Robert Costanza, Joshua Farley, Matthew A. Wilson, Rosimeiry Portela, Jan Rotmans, Ferdinando Villa and Monica Grasso (2002), 'Modeling the Dynamics of the Integrated Earth System and the Value of Global Ecosystem Services Using the GUMBO Model', Ecological Economics, 41 (3), June, 529-60 -- Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Peter Nijkamp (1994), 'Dynamic Macro Modelling and Materials Balance', Economic Modelling, 11 (3), July, 283-307 -- Graham M. Turner and Timothy Baynes (2010), 'Soft-Coupling of National Biophysical and Economic Models for Improved Understanding of Feedbacks', Environmental Policy and Governance, 20 (4), July/August, 270-82 -- Robert U. Ayres (2008), 'Sustainability Economics: Where do we Stand?', Ecological Economics, 67 (2), September, 281-310 -- Peter A. Victor (2010), 'Ecological Economics and Economic Growth', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1185, January, 237-45 -- Juliet B. Schor (2005), 'Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction', Journal of Industrial Ecology, 9 (1-2), 37-50Summary: Clive Hamilton (1999), 'The Genuine Progress Indicator Methodological Developments and Results from Australia', Ecological Economics, 30 (1), July, 13-28 -- Mathis Wackernagel, Niels B. Schulz, Diana Deumling, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Martin Jenkins, Valerie Kapos, Chad Monfreda, Jonathan Loh, Norman Myers, Richard Norgaard and Jørgen Randers (2002), 'Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99 (14), July, 9266-71 -- William E. Rees (1992), 'Ecological Footprints and Appropriated Carrying Capacity: What Urban Economics Leaves Out', Environment and Urbanization, 4 (2), October, 121-30 -- Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb and Fridolin Krausmann (2007), 'Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP)', Internet Encyclopaedia of Ecological Economics, March, 1-15 304 -- Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger (1995), 'Economic Growth and the Environment', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110 (2), May, 353-77 -- Soumyananda Dinda (2004), 'Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: A Survey', Ecological Economics, 49 (4), August, 431-55 -- Richard T. Carson (2009), 'The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Seeking Empirical Regularity and Theoretical Structure', Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 4 (1), Winter, 3-23 -- Aurélien Boutaud, Natacha Gondran and Christian Brodhag (2006), '(Local) Environmental Quality Versus (Global) Ecological Carrying Capacity: What Might Alternative Aggregated Indicators Bring to the Debates About Environmental Kuznets Curves and Sustainable Development?', International Journal of Sustainable Development, 9 (3), 297-310 -- Marian R. Chertow (2000), 'The IPAT Equation and Its Variants: Changing Views of Technology and Environmental Impact', Journal of Industrial Ecology, 4 (4), 13-29 -- Fridolin Krausmann, Simone Gingrich, Nina Eisenmenger, Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl and Marina Fischer-Kowalski (2009), 'Growth in Global Materials Use, GDP and Population During the 20th Century', Ecological Economics, 68 (10), August, 2696-705 -- Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart III Chapin, Eric Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W. Corell, Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen and Jonathan Foley (2009), 'Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity', Ecology and Society, 14 (2), 32-64 -- John Asafu-Adjaye (2003), 'Biodiversity Loss and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis', Contemporary Economic Policy, 21 (2), April, 173-85 -- Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke (2010), 'The End of Economic Growth? A Contracting Threshold Hypothesis', Ecological Economics, 69 (11), September, 2213-23 -- Brian R. Copeland and M. Scott Taylor (2004), 'Trade, Growth, and the Environment', Journal of Economic Literature, XLII, March, 7-71 -- Anna Kukla-Gryz (2009), 'Economic Growth, International Trade and Air Pollution: A Decomposition Analysis', Ecological Economics, 68 (5), March, 1329-39 -- Clive L. Spash (2007), 'The Economics of Climate Change Impacts à la Stern: Novel and Nuanced or Rhetorically Restricted?', Ecological Economics, 63 (4), September, 706-13 -- Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton, Chris Hope and Stephane Alberth (2009), 'Did the Stern Review Underestimate US and Global Climate Damages?', Energy Policy, 37 (7), July, 2717-21 -- Martin L. Weitzman (2009), 'On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change', Review of Economics and Statistics, XCI (1), February, 1-19 -- Charles R. Boehmer (2010), 'Economic Growth and Violent International Conflict: 1875-1999', Defence and Peace Economics, 21 (3), June, 249-68Summary: John Stuart Mill ([1848] 1868), 'Of the Stationary State', Principles of Political Economy, Book IV, Volume II, Chapter VI, London, UK: J.W. Parker, 334-40 -- John Maynard Keynes ([1931] 1951), 'Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930)', Essays in Persuasion, Part IV, Chapter 2, London, UK: Rupert Hart-Davis, 358-73, references -- K. William Kapp (1950), 'The Nature and Significance of Social Costs', in The Social Costs of Private Enterprise, Chapter 2, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 13-25 -- Leopold Kohr (1978), 'Size and Living Standards', in The Overdeveloped Nations: The Diseconomies of Scale, Chapter III, New York, NY: Schoken Books, 25-46, reset -- Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), 'The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth', in Henry Jarrett (ed.), Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy: Essays from the Sixth RFF Forum, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 3-14, reset -- E.J. Mishan (1967), 'Foreword', in The Costs of Economic Growth, London, UK: Staples Press, xvi-xxi -- E.J. Mishan (1967), 'Growthmania', in The Costs of Economic Growth, Chapter 1, London, UK: Staples Press, 3-8 -- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1975), 'Energy and Economic Myths', Southern Economic Journal, 41 (3), January, 347-81 -- Simon Kuznets (1973), 'Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections', American Economic Review, 63 (3), June, 247-58 -- Luís Francisco Carvalho and João Rodrigues (2006), 'On Markets and Morality: Revisiting Fred Hirsch', Review of Social Economy, LXIV (3), September, 331-48 -- Gideon Rosenbluth (1976), 'Economists and the Growth Controversy', Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2 (2), Spring, 225-39 -- Donella H. Meadows (2007), 'The History and Conclusions of The Limits to Growth', System Dynamics Review, 23 (2/3), Summer/Fall, 191-7 -- Wilfred Beckerman (1992), 'Economic Growth and the Environment: Whose Growth? Whose Environment?', World Development, 20 (4), 481-96 -- Paul Ekins (1993), '"Limits to Growth" and "Sustainable Development": Grappling with Ecological Realities', Ecological Economics, 8 (3), December, 269-88 -- Giovanni Dosi and Marco Grazzi (2009), 'Energy, Development and the Environment: An Appraisal Three Decades After the "Limits to Growth" Debate', in Andreas Pyka, Uwe Cantner, Alfred Greiner and Thomas Kuhn (eds), Recent Advances in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics: Essays in Honour of Horst Hanusch, Chapter 2, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 34-52 -- Graham M. Turner (2008), 'A Comparison of The Limits to Growth with 30 Years of Reality', Global Environmental Change, 18 (3), August, 397-411 -- Christian Leipert (1986), 'Social Costs of Economic Growth', Journal of Economic Issues, XX (1), March, 109-31 -- Peter Bartelmus (2009), 'The Cost of Natural Capital Consumption: Accounting for a Sustainable World Economy', Ecological Economics, 68 (6), April, 1850-57 -- Manfred Max-Neef (1995), 'Economic Growth and Quality of Life: A Threshold Hypothesis', Ecological Economics, 15 (2), November, 115-18Summary: Petter Naess and Karl Georg Høyer (2009), 'The Emperor's Green Clothes: Growth, Decoupling, and Capitalism', Capitalism Nature Socialism, 20 (3), September, 74-95 -- Myron J. Gordon (2005), 'Growth, Uncertainty and the Third World in the Rise and Fall of Capitalism', Journal of Asian Economics, 16 (2), April, 153-77 -- Joan Martínez-Alier, Unai Pascual, Franck-Dominique Vivien and Edwin Zaccai (2010), 'Sustainable De-Growth: Mapping the Context, Criticisms and Future Prospects of an Emergent Paradigm', Ecological Economics, 69 (9), July, 1741-7Summary: Recommended readings (Machine generated): Ayres, R. U. and A. V. Kneese (1969), 'Production, Consumption and Externalities', The American Economic Review, LIX, June, 282-97. -- Commoner, B. (1972), The Closing Circle, London: Jonathan Cape. -- Daly, H. E., J. B. Cobb and C. W. Cobb (1989), For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Boston: Beacon Press. -- Ehrlich, P. R. and J. P. Holdren (1971), 'Impact of Population Growth', Science, 171 (3977), 1212-17. -- Galbraith, J. K. (1958), The Affluent Society, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. -- Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1971), The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. -- Hirsch, F. (1976), Social Limits to Growth, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. -- Jones, C. I. (2009), 'The Costs of Economic Growth', unpublished paper, available at: http://www.stanford.edu/~chadj/cost090.pdf. -- Keynes, J. M. (1935), The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, New York: Harcourt-Brace. -- Kuznets, S. (1955), 'Economic Growth and Income Inequality', The American Economic Review, XLV (1), 28. -- Meadows, D. H. (1972), The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind, New York: Universe Books. -- Mishan, E. J. (1977), The Economic Growth Debate: An Assessment, London: G. Allen & Unwin. -- Nordhaus, W. D. and J. Tobin (1972), 'Is Growth Obsolete?', National Bureau of Economic Research, available at: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c7620.pdf. -- Pigou, A. C. (1920), The Economics of Welfare, London: Macmillan. -- Spence, M. (2011), The Next Convergence, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. -- Stern, N. (2006), The Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, London: HM Treasury. -- Tol, R. (2009), 'The Economic Effects of Climate Change', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23 (2), 29-51. -- United Nations (2011), World Population Prospects. The 2010 Revision. Highlights and Advance Tables, available at: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf -- Victor, P.A. (1972), Pollution: Economy and Environment, London: Allen and Unwin. -- Victor, P.A., J.E. Hanna, A. Kubursi (1998), 'How strong is weak sustainability?' in S. Faucheux, M. O'Connor and J. van der Straaten (eds), Sustainable Development: Concepts, Rationalities and Strategies, Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 195-210PPN: PPN: 1023449471Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE | ZDB-1-EWE-ebook
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