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‘Key issues for attention from ecological economists’: a comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2008

AART DE ZEEUW
AART DE ZEEUW*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and CentER, Tilburg University, the Netherlands and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. Email: [email protected]
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Extract

Paul Ehrlich has written a wonderful article with the purpose to convince economists to switch their research interests to what he calls ecological economics. His argument is twofold. If our intellectual capacity is not geared towards these issues, humanity may be heading for a big disaster. Secondly, it gives tremendous opportunities for economists: the ones who switch will end up in the centre of the profession, because society will be in big need of their expertise.

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Research Article
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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 21 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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