Sentences with phrase «of ecological economists»

The radical ambitions of ecological economists to subject the economy to the laws of nature diminished greatly.

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There is a new bunch of heterodox economists — ecological economists, some call themselves bio-economists, there are feminist economists — all pointing out that the neo-classical paradigm is a relic of the past.

We welcome you to the ranks of «ecological economists» — economists who understand that there can be no «value» in a world in which natural ecosystems are in a state of steady decline.

This section is a good exposition of the impossibility of continuing economic «growth», including the failure of absolute decoupling of GDP growth from material throughputs (something we have emphasised9) and the basics of the «steady state economy» as proposed by ecological economists like Herman Daly.

Australian economist and ecological thinker H. C. Coombs (1990) has said: «There is nothing divinely ordained about the economic system: it is the product of human ingenuity, effort and capacity to organize and, therefore, can be properly questioned, criticized and, if a better alternative exist, rejected» (p. 143).

Luis C. Rodriguez is an ecological economist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems working on the design of efficient and equitable economic instruments to achieve both environmental conservation and poverty alleviation objectives.

The plan would create a Ministry of Ecological Environment: a «positive development» that would put a single entity in charge of policies related to climate change, water resource management, and pollution, says Dabo Guan, a climate change economist at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K.

More members from «the regulated community» — chemical and energy companies and manufacturers — could prevent the committees from spotting problems such as the fracking report, says Robert Richardson, an ecological economist at Michigan State University who was one of the BOSC members let go.

Who has ever heard an economist talk about the «carrying capacity» of an economy, for example (a routine ecological notion)?

Why does the list not include economists like Amartya Sen of Harvard University, also a Nobel prize winning economist whose career is devoted to promoting well - being particularly among the world's poor (he had an op - ed a couple of days ago in the NY Times re: the food crisis); or Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, also a former World Bank chief economist and Nobel prize winner who is critical of the globalized free market apparatus run by the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO; or Herman Daley of the University of Maryland, also a former economist at the World Bank whose career is devoted to developing a sustainable economy within the ecological constraints of our environment.

For the conference, we invited in fifteen mentors, including Gar Alperovitz, a founder of the Harvard Institute of Politics and author of «America Beyond Capitalism,» ecological economist Josh Farley who works to measure happiness in Bhutan, and Juliet Schor, who used to teach Marxist economics at Harvard, before the transformation of the Economics Department to a near sole focus on neoclassical economics.

Herman Daly at the University of Maryland is one prominent ecological economist.

He was introduced by Herman Daly, professor emeritus and former senior economist at the World Bank, widely known as the founding father of ecological economics.

As strongly as the concept of carrying capacity is despised by neoclassical economists, just as eagerly has it been embraced by «ecological economists» (Costanza 1991).

As the World Bank's senior environmental economist from 1988 to 1994, Daly focused on Latin American poverty and development and helped to establish the discipline of ecological economics.

Herman Daly is an ecological economist and co-founder and associate editor of the journal Ecological ecological economist and co-founder and associate editor of the journal Ecological Ecological Economics.

An interdisciplinary environmental scholar, policy analyst and advocate An ecological economist A philosopher of sorts (specializing in «climate ethics») An expert in global climate policy Kind of an expert in the management of scientific uncertainty Teach statistics, ecological economics, political economy, environmental policy, climate policy

Herman E. Daly, professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, foremost U.S. ecological economist, author of Ecological Economics, Steady - State Economics, Valuing The Earth, among otecological economist, author of Ecological Economics, Steady - State Economics, Valuing The Earth, among otEcological Economics, Steady - State Economics, Valuing The Earth, among other works:

Endless Economic Growth Isn't Possible Despite what mainstream economists doggedly maintain — even though there is an orgy of evidence to the contrary — there are very genuine ecological constraints on economic activity.

Ecological economists actually call this kind of stability a dynamic equilibrium.

Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)