Economists and Ecology: From the Physiocrats to Stiglitz
– Economy and Nature: Awkward Beginnings
The Physiocrats and the Natural Order
The Classical Economists: Between Steady State and Nature as Storehouse
Karl Marx: Freeing Nature from Capitalism, the Better to Dominate it
– A Flawed Theoretical Framework
– The First Dissenters: Thomas More, Friedrich Engels and John Stuart Mill
– How the Economy Came to Ecology
Environmental Economics: When Nature Has to Adapt to the Standard Framework / “Weak Sustainability”
The 1970s—the Ecological Years
Ecological Economics in the US
– Towards Reconciliation