New Narratives for Sustainability: The Red Pill for Economists

Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi ()

Chapter 3 in Towards an Integrated Paradigm in Heterodox Economics, 2012, pp 64-93 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At the beginning of the third millennium we are living in an era of swift changes threatening the stability of the existing global economic order. The explanation for this fact is simple: the world is full of people with increasing expectations of economic development and technological progress despite a plummeting level of natural resources per capita.

Keywords: Productive Sector; Fossil Energy; Metabolic Pattern; Fairy Tale; Primary Energy Source (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230361850_4

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