Man and the Biosphere: Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy

Name: Man and the Biosphere: Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy
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ISBN: 9781563240249

ISBN-10: 1563240246

ISBN-13: 9781563240249

Edition: 1993

Authors: Kenneth M. Stokes

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A thought provoking work that traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the physiocrats, through Marx, to the present. This interdisciplinary treatment synthesizes economics and social sciences with the natural sciences, focusing particularly on biology and ecology. Stokes supports the argument that the coevolution of humankind and the biosphere is an indispensable condition of society's further development with a discussion covering a far reaching variety of disciplines. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/30/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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Preface


Philosophical Origins of Open-Systems Economic Analysis


Historical Background to the Development of Economic Thought


The Origins of Political Economy


The Concept of Nature in the Totality Theory of Marx and Engels


Broadening Economic Analysis: The Early Contribution of the General Theory of Organization


Discovery of Thermodynamics and the Collapse of the Laplacean Prototype


Unity of Scientific Knowledge


Contributions of N.I. Bukharin


Heretical Philosophers of Social Energetics


The Physiocracy of Frederick Soddy


Neo-Physiocratic and Biophysical Models of the Economic Process


Generational Concerns


General Systems, Open Systems, and Living Systems


Living Systems and Economic Systems: Political Economy in the Broad Sense


Models of the Biophysical Approach to the Economic Process


Beyond Entropy and the Economic Process: Broadening Economic Analysis from a Systems Theoretical Approach


Complexification through Differentiation


Living Systems, Organizational Dissonance, and Cybernetics


The Problem of Wholes and Their Complexity


Living Systems, Autopoietic and Allopoietic Systems


Hierarchy of Finalities and the General Principle of Descending Constraints


Political Economy for the Epoch of the Noosphere


General Conclusions


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index