- Published: 1 Sep 2017
- DOI: 10.4324/9781138201521-HET15-1
Contents
- Abstract
- William Petty and Richard Cantillon: labour and land
- Physiocracy: the rule of nature
- Adam Smith: rent and natural prices
- David Ricardo: diminishing returns
- Johann Heinrich Von Thünen: rent and location
- Thomas Robert Malthus: population and resources
- John Stuart Mill: the stationary state
- Karl Marx: absolute rent
- Henry George: common ownership of land
- William Stanley Jevons: the coal question
- References
Nature, Environment and Political Economy
Abstract
Economists have perceived the natural environment not only as a source of wealth but also as a factor which could limit economic growth. The diversity in viewpoints partly reflects profound changes in the economic fabric of society, such as the shift from an agricultural to an industrial economy. Contributions by economists from the pre-classical, classical and neoclassical periods illustrate the major insights gained with regard to the role of nature and the environment.
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Keywords
- Agriculture
- Diminishing Returns
- Distribution Of Income
- Growth
- Landowners
- Law Of Population
- Pre-Classical Economics
- Rent
- Tableau Economique
Subjects
- Development and Growth
- Economic Growth
- Land
- Natural Resources and Environment
- Population
- Economic History and Economic Thought
- Development and Growth
- Unemployment, Poverty and the Social Question
- Value and Distribution
- Cost of Production Theories of Value
- Income Distribution (Wages, Profits, Rents…)
- Labour Theory of Value
Currents of Thought
- Classical political Economy
- Malthusian School
- Ricardian School
- Smithian School
- European Enlightenment
- Physiocracy
- Marginalist and Neoclassical Schools
- British Marginalism
- Marxism
- Nineteenth Century Social Reformers
Countries
Periods
- 1700-1755. Inception of Systematic Economic Analysis
- 1756-1800. Emergence of Modern Currents of Political Economy
- 1801-1870. Classical Political Economy and its Critics
- 1871-1914. Development of Major Contemporary Currents of Thought: Marginalism, Institutionalism, Historicism and Socialism