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| | Green economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The green economists share broader ecological and social concerns, including a distrust of capitalism itself, that lie outside the mainstream concerns of the neoclassical subfields environmental economics, resource economics, and sustainable development. | | | What seems to define green economists most clearly is the rejection of all analyses of factors of production or means of production that fail to clearly and fundamentally distinguish between living (nature, persons)and non-living (financial, social, instructional, infrastructural) roles in a productive process. | | | It is generally impossible to distinguish green economists, ecology theorists and systems theorists, as the green analysis deliberately uses metaphors from natural capital to describe or design infrastructural capital, i.e. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_economics
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| | Green Taxes Report |
| | Recently the debate about green taxes has included the issue of tax shifting, that is, of using green taxes as a means to restructure national tax systems. | | | Green taxes would not impose a competitive disadvantage if imposed on the household sector or on that portion of the business sector that does not export its products or services. | | | These taxes are used to generate revenue to pay for the damages and cleanup costs from pollution and to pay for measures to reduce future pollution. |
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http://www.ilsr.org/ecotax/greentax.html
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| | Slate - Dismal Scientist - April 17, 1997 |
| | True, economists generally believe that a system of free markets is a pretty efficient way to run an economy, as long as the prices are right--as long, in particular, as people pay the true social cost of their actions. | | | The Great Green Tax Shift--a shift away from taxes on employment and income toward taxes on pollution and other negative externalities--has everything going for it. | | | Environmental issues, however, more or less by definition involve situations in which the price is wrong--in which the private costs of an activity fail to reflect its true social costs. |
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http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/green.html
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| | Green Party - Real Progress |
| | Green economists have today criticised the Lib Dem local income tax plans as a "a vote-grabbing exercise, which won't redistribute wealth", and laid out plans for Green Land Value taxation instead. | | | Green economist Molly Scott-Cato, comments: "The Lib Dem's contradictory tax plans are no more than a vote-grabbing exercise. | | | She continues: "The fairest system of local income taxation still remains the Green Land Value tax, which will be related to property values, taking into account large landholdings for the first time. |
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http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/1908
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| | Cosmopolitan Protection |
| | The Green argument is a stabilising argument that sees massive market failure in the power relations of an unpartitioned global economy; especially in the externalisation of production costs made possible by producer interests setting nations and communities against each other like prisoners in the famous dilemma. | | | In the standard economists' formulation of the international economy, all countries are small. | | | A particularly important source of instability to Green writers is the international capital market, which moves literally trillions of dollars in a single day (Hazledine 1998, p.152) mostly focussed on one or few fashionable investment opportunities which may only be marginally superior - if that - to those to which capital does not flow. |
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http://www.marokopa.com/KeithRankin/1999CosProt.html
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| | Global Greens - |
| | Green parties have set themselves the probably impossible task of reconciling the rainbow of new social and environmental politics into an holistic philosophy and a coherent political programme. | | | The Green approach is to assess particular plans and particular markets with regard to their ability to deliver ecologically sustainable and socially equitable production and distribution outcomes. | | | By the late 1990s, these Green parties were linked via the Internet, were holding regional and international congresses, and were undertaking joint regional and global initiatives on issues of mutual concern, such as nuclear testing and nuclear waste disposal. |
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http://www.globalgreens.info/literature/dann/chapterone.html
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| | CESP News - Environmental economist Lawrence Goulder sees economics a powerful tool for green groups |
| | Environmental economists are on the payroll of government agencies (the Environmental Protection Agency had about 164 on staff in 2004, up 36% from 1995) and groups like the Wilderness Society, a Washington-based conservation group, which has four of them to work on projects such as assessing the economic impact of building off-road driving trails. | | | As state and federal governments face pressure to rein in spending, officials are weighing environmental measures against other priorities such as welfare and health care, and environmentalists are realizing that their policies have to be cost-effective to be feasible. | | | Many economists dream of getting high-paying jobs on Wall Street, at prestigious think tanks and universities or at powerful government agencies like the Federal Reserve. |
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http://cesp.stanford.edu/news/562
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| | New Statesman: Get greener, Gordon: the secret of environmental taxes lies in the detail and the sales line - ... |
| | Is green tax to become a general revenue-raiser, providing extra funds for government priorities such as the NHS and education? | | | Drivers impose huge costs on the rest of society which are arguably not reflected in motoring costs: these have fallen in real terms while the cost of public transport has soared. | | | For many of those who pay them, country life is an economic decision: they enjoy better and cheaper housing than their city cousins, along with cheaper insurance, lower crime rates and less pollution and traffic. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4378_v127/ai_20924280
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| | ET 5/99: Capitalism Goes Green? |
| | Green economists advocate a "tax shift" an overall restructuring of the tax code so that it becomes more costly to harm the environment, less costly to generate income. | | | If we started to pay taxes based on the debts we are imposing on the future, rather than our incomes, it would restore a sense of fairness, true-cost accounting, and 'pay-as-you-go' government that the current system lacks. | | | As University of Maryland economist Herman Daly puts it, nations should shift their tax bases away from labor and capital ("the things you want") and toward pollution and other environmental ills. |
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http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0599/et0599s3.html
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| | Distinctions among Greens, Socialists, and Liberals |
| | Socialist economists tend to argue for the ``socialization of economic externalities'' whereas ecological economists argue for the ``internalization of economic externalities.'' An externality is aneconomic cost or benefit (usually costs) which is not included in market prices. | | | For instance, pollution is a real cost that isn't included in market prices so commodities produced in factories which dump wastes are in effect receiving a subsidy from the community. | | | The result is that cleaner and less socially disruptive forms of production end up being cheaper rather than more expensive (their current status) than polluting and socially disruptive forms of production. |
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http://zach.chambana.net/politics/greenphil.html
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| | Garden State EnviroNet |
| | GREEN seeks to improve education through a global network that promotes watershed stewardship. | | | All proceeds from memberships and sales of materials in GREEN's catalog are used to support GREEN educational initiatives around the world. | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MEMBERSHIP IN GREEN We invite you to become a member of the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network, a community of global citizens dedicated to watershed stewardship and the enhancement of education. |
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http://www.gsenet.org/library/11gsn/1997/gs70217-.php
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| | Guiding Principles of the Green Party |
| | Within the context of this economic development model, Green Party politicians view environmental concerns as a management issue, promoting both state and industry sponsored polciy solutions. | | | The types of conflict generated by the different Green political approaches becomes clearer with an example from economic policy. | | | Party membership divides along two lines with respect to the proper means for achieving party goals. |
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http://greennature.com/article759.html
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| | Power and Visibility |
| | Economists discovered, to their pleas-ant surprise and with the help of economic anthropologists, that peasants behaved rationally; given their constraints, they optimized their options, minimized risks, and utilized resources efficiently. | | | In their sustained effort to unveil the twisted rationality and effects of these processes, Lourdes Benería and other political economists recently have focused on the effects on women of so-called structural adjustment policies (SAPS) forced by the World Bank and the IMF on Third World countries since the early 1980s. | | | This history, however, can also be seen from the perspective of the changes and transformations in the discursive regime, even if these changes, as should be clear by now, are circumscribed by discursive practices tied to political economies, knowledge traditions, and institutions of ruling. |
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21/globalism/Escobar.htm
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| | Environmental economics :: Web Articles :: |
| | Environmental economics was a major influence on the theories of natural capitalism and environmental finance, which could be said to be two sub-branches of environmental economics concerned with resource conservation in production, and the value of biodiversity to humans, respectively. | | | Some advocate a major shift from taxation from income and sales taxes to tax on pollution - the so-called "green tax shift". | | | Often it is advocated that quotas should be implemented by way of tradeable emissions permits, which if freely traded may ensure that reductions in pollution are achieved at least cost. |
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http://www.webarticles.com/Society/Economics/Environmental-economics
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| | Green Building Materials |
| | Connecting “being green” with “consumer choice” is a scam that has been promoted in the deregulation of the electrical industry. | | | Green procurement can, in itself, be a powerful instrument for creating market demand for green products. | | | On the cutting edge of green business, there is also Interface Flooring, which is voluntarily implementing “extended producer responsibility” that drastically reduces waste. |
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http://www.greeneconomics.net/BuildMatEssay.html
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| | Examining Local Currency Systems: A Social Audit Approach |
| | It is advocated by 'green' economists as a tool for enabling more sustainable economic development, since it is claimed to promote self-reliant communities, overcome cash scarcity (which inhibits economic activity), and incorporate environmental and socially equitable ethics. | | | To test whether this is indeed the case, a social audit of one LETS is conducted. | | | The Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) is a form of local currency which is non-tangible, interest-free, freely created, and restricted to the local community. |
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http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC6467.htm
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| | Ecological economics - Open Encyclopedia |
| | Chief among the critiques of current normative economics by ecological economists is its approach to natural resources and capital. | | | In practice, ecological economics focuses primarily on the key issues of uneconomic growth and measuring well-being. | | | Analyses from the standpoint of conventional and environmental economics undervalue natural capital in that it is treated as a factor of production interchangeable with labor and technology (human capital). |
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http://open-encyclopedia.com/Ecological_economics
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| | The authors survey the economic instruments available - tradeable permits, pollution charges, refund systems, and "green" taxes - and argue that ecological tax reform would reward long-term, resource-efficiency investment, and provide strong enough incentives to encourage large-scale changes in private sector behavior. | | | Every day, all over the world, billions of people play their part in humanity's global growth economy. | | | Toward this end, they propose and Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), which takes into account such elements as adjustments for income distribution, environmental damage, the value of housework, and resource depletion. |
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http://www.lightparty.com/Economic/0ApexBooks.html
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| | Measuring well-being - Free Encyclopedia |
| | However, there is broad agreement among green economists that a common standard for measuring well-being, and possibly also Bioregional Democracy measures, would be required in order to ensure biosecurity after a currency union. | | | These measures are often associated in the United States with the Seventh Generation Amendment proposal to the U.S. Constitution, and in Canada with the Canada Well-Being Measurement Act co-authored by Mike Nickerson of the Green Party of Ontario and Joe Jordan, a Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Leeds-Grenville, ON. | | | In part to stall or block currency union, the Canadian Labour Congress, Green Party of the United States, Green Party of Ontario and Green Party of Canada have all backed well-being measures very strongly. |
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http://strategygames.wacklepedia.com/m/me/measuring_well_being.html
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| | What's cheaper; placating the poor with welfare or imprisoning the rich? |
| | (Five percent involuntary unemployment is considered to be full employment by just about all rightleaning economists). | | | Targeted welfare is a Trojan Horse that has acted to undermine confidence in social institutions that we have been able to take for granted because they have been effective. | | | Green's view of the role of government in a moral economy is most explicit in his comments on noncustodial fathers: "Men should be deterred from fathering illegitimate children. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1223/krnknpay_futr.html
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| | Environmental Issues |
| | Apogee Research: Apogee Research, Inc. is a transportation and environmental consultancy specializing in economics, finance, and policy. | | | League of Conservation Voters: The self-styled political arm of the environmental movement, LCV issues environmental scorecards on the politcal state of the environment and on the voting records of elected representatives. | | | Green Cross International: Green Cross International (GCI) is a global, non-aligned networking organization working in the area of environment and sustainable development. |
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http://web.lemoyne.edu/~mcmahon/enviro.html
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| | High Country News |
| | Since last spring, Congress, the White House, economists, consumer groups and business leaders have been sounding the alarm about a natural gas crisis. | | | But really, the industry and the Bush administration are at the controls, says Peter Morton, an economist with The Wilderness Society. | | | Green economists emphasize that we can’t drill our way out of the problem, because there isn’t enough gas still in the ground in the U.S. to meet long-term needs. |
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http://www.headwatersnews.org/HCN.gasneed.html
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| | Ecology movement - FreeEncyclopedia |
| | The global ecology movement is one of several new social movements that supported the formation of Green Parties in many democratic countries beginning at the end of the 1970s. | | | Green parties have roots in the ecology movement, though. | | | This and the establisment of a global anti-globalization movement in the late 1990s can be seen as follow-ups to the ecological movement. |
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http://openproxy.ath.cx/ec/Ecology_movement.html
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| | Nicholas School -- People - Bill Schlesinger |
| | “Green” to economists is money; “green” to the ecologists is nature. | | | My wife and I recently put a photovoltaic system on the roof of our house, to generate up to 1/3 of our electric power each year. | | | North Carolina Green Power is a great example of a state-wide program to expand the supply of clean, renewable sources of energy in this state. |
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http://www.env.duke.edu/people/faculty/news/schlesinger-1ncspeech3.30.05.html
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| | Jean-Jacques Laffont; economist; 57 The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | Arrow said that over the past 40 years the most important development in economics had been "the study of incentives to achieve potential mutual gains when the parties have different degrees of knowledge." He called Dr. Laffont "one of the most important contributors" to this research. | | | His later career centered on developing policies for improving the economies of less-developed countries. | | | In essence, the issue is that people can share a benefit such as cleaner air by having someone else pay to clean it. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040515/news_1m15laffont.html
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| | Lü will be a green fashion magazine |
| | 's editorial policy will be supervised by green economists. | | | , is asking for participation not only from major advertisers in the fashion industry, but also from solar companies, electric vehicles, health foods, hemp, organic cotton, all green products. | | | Fashion designers like Kenneth Cole, Carlos Miele, and Betsey Johnson have been invited to climb on board. |
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http://www.remyc.com/lumag.html
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