Sustainability as Economic Rationality

Georg Müller-Christ ()
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Georg Müller-Christ: Universität Bremen

Chapter Chapter 4 in Sustainable Management, 2011, pp 51-65 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explains how sustainability can be understood as an economic rationality. Beginning with historical conceptualizations of sustainability (such as those of Aristotle and of sustainable forestry), the chapter shows that the problem sustainability is supposed to solve is really an inherently economic one: the problem of resource husbandry, or housekeeping.

Keywords: Input Factor; Management Study; Adjustment Cost; Neoclassical Economic; Productivity Relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19165-7_4

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