Instead, ecological economists drew attention to what they identified as ecological thresholds. (thebreakthrough.org)
The radical ambitions of ecological economists to subject the economy to the laws of nature diminished greatly. (thebreakthrough.org)
involves identifying (however roughly and imperfectly) the threshold beyond which economic growth becomes, as ecological economist Herman Daly provocatively puts it, «uneconomic growth». (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)