Evolution, Time, Production and the Environment
2nd Edition
Published on 12. August 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIX, 288 pages
978-3-540-58044-7 (ISBN)
Description
This second edition is brought about by two factors. First, the initial printing sold out much more rapidly than we expected. Second, several colleagues have been kind enough to suggest that this book not only has a contribution to make to ecological economics, but also has relevance to economics general. Thus our OUf distinction distinction between between genotypic genotypic and phenotypic evolution may be used to characterise not only economic sectors, but also whole economies, and in particular economic schools of thought. For instance, the Austrian subjectivist school deals explicitly with ignorance and the emergence of novelty, and may therefore be used to analyse genotypic development. In contrast, neoclassical economics deals principally with phenotypic development. When Dr. Müller Muller of Springer-Verlag suggested the production of a second edition, we were therefore pleased that this book might remain available. Several readers and in particular reviewers of the first edition remarked, in one way or the other, that they had questions concerning several of our OUf concepts, concepts, such as genotype, phenotype, ignorance, surprise, sUlprise, novelty, novelty, knowledge, knowledge, predictable predictable and unpredictable processes etc. Of course, all these concepts are of importance for evolution in general and for invention and innovation of new techniques in particular. We therefore considered some modifications and extensions of the original text, but on the advice of colleagues, have restricted oUfselves ourselves to correcting mistakes that crept into the first edition and to two extensions ofthe of the text, text, one major, one smaller.
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Edition
Second Edition 1993
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIX, 288 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-58044-7 (9783540580447)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-03624-2
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Evolution, Time, Production and the Environment
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02/1993
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Persons
Malte Faber, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Heidelberg University. He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 1969 and habilitated there in 1973. From 1974 to 2004 he held a chair in economic theory at the Heidelberg University, where he was director of the Alfred Weber Institute and from 1997-2004 director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Environmental Economics. He has been Professor Emeritus since 2004 and teaches seminars on environmental problems and economic philosophy at German and international universities. From 1981 to 2017, he was an advisor to the German government, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the People's Republic of China. Since 1998, he has been giving courses and lectures on "Zen meditation and Christian contemplation" at the Heidelberg University and other locations.
Reiner Manstetten, Lecturer in philosophy at the Heidelberg University and teacher of Christian contemplation. 1992 doctorate in philosophy on Meister Eckhart, 1997 habilitation in economics on the picture of humankind in economics, 2003 Ernst Bloch Prize of the City of Ludwigshafen. Publications on philosophical mysticism as well as on ecological economics and the foundations of economics, often in cooperation with Malte Faber. 2018 monograph: Die dunkle Seite der Wirtschaft (Alber Verlag).
Marco Rudolf, Academic Assistant at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, doctoral student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). After studying mathematics in Heidelberg and completing a master's degree in resource governance in Chile, he has been researching hydrogen in the energy transition and corporate carbon accounting since 2020. For him, transformation to a sustainable society means not only technical change, but also social change. In addition to his scientific work, he is involved in various youth organizations and organizes vacation camps for adults, where thefocus is on communal group experiences in an environment characterized by sustainable consumption and proximity to nature.
Marc Frick, Academic Associate in the General Secretariat of the University of Basel. 2020 PhD in Political Theory on social-theoretical implications of gift practices. Publications on ecological economics in cooperation with Malte Faber and Reiner Manstetten as well as on social and ethical aspects of environmental and climate policy. Since 2015, he has been the honorary chairman of an amateur sports club, which has significantly shaped his view of social cohesion and the interaction of very different people to solve social challenges.
Mi-Yong Becker, Professor of Sustainability with an Economic Focus at Bochum University of Applied Sciences. 2004 Doctorate in economics at the Heidelberg University. From 2004 to 2007, post-doctoral fellow of the DFG at the Research Training Group "Global Challenges" at the University of Tübingen. Subsequently research associate at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research until 2019, most recently as head of the "Governance and Innovation" working group. Winner of the German Environmental Award of the DBU 2018 together with M. Hirschfeld, R. Müller and M. v. Afferden for the development and political implementation of a decentralized wastewater system solution in Jordan. Professor at Bochum University of Applied Sciences since 2019 and member of the Executive Board as Vice President for Sustainability, Transfer & Entrepreneurship since 2022.
Content
I. Aims.- 1 Introduction.- II. Evolution.- 2 The Concept of Evolution.- 3 An Evolutionary Approach to Production and Innovation.- III. Time.- 4 Economic Analysis and Concepts of Time Irreversibility.- 5 Time in the Natural Sciences: Some Lessons for Economics.- 6 Time, Conceptual Structures and Economic Schools of Thought.- IV. Ignorance.- 7 An Anatomy of Surprise and Ignorance.- V. Production and Innovation.- 8 Economy-Environment Interactions in the Long-Run.- 9 Production, Accumulation and Time: A Neo-Austrian Approach.- 10 The-Neo Austrian Approach: Extensions to the Model.- 11 A Neo-Austrian Simulation Model of Economy-Environment Interactions.- VI. Final Thoughts.- 12 Policy Implications and the Need for Interdisciplinary Research.- References.- Author Index.