Man and the biosphere : toward a coevolutionary political economy Stokes, Kenneth M.

By: Stokes, Kenneth MContributor(s): Stokes, Kenneth MMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002Publication details: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe 1992Description: xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9781563240249Subject(s): Communism and ecology | Marxian economics | Human ecologyDDC classification: 306.345 STO
Contents:
1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- 5. General Conclusions.
Summary: Traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the Physiocrats through Marx to the present. It is a broad treatment of the history of intellectual thought that bridges economic and the social sciences on the one hand, with natural science and biology on the other.
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1. 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 --
2. 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 --
3. 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 --
4. 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 --
5. General Conclusions.

Traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the Physiocrats through Marx to the present. It is a broad treatment of the history of intellectual thought that bridges economic and the social sciences on the one hand, with natural science and biology on the other.

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