Man and the Biosphere: Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy: Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy

by Stokes,Kenneth M.

• ISBN13: 9781563240232
• ISBN10: 1563240238
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781315487038
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge
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Preface
Philosophical Origins of Open-Systems Economic Analysis
Introduction	p. 3
Historical Background to the Development of Economic Thought	p. 9
The Origins of Political Economy	p. 13
The Concept of Nature in the Totality Theory of Marx and Engels	p. 31
Conclusion	p. 64
Broadening Economic Analysis: The Early Contribution of the General Theory of Organization
Introduction	p. 66
Discovery of Thermodynamics and the Collapse of the Laplacean Prototype	p. 67
Unity of Scientific Knowledge	p. 69
Contributions of N.I. Bukharin	p. 84
Heretical Philosophers of Social Energetics	p. 89
The Physiocracy of Frederick Soddy	p. 90
Conclusion	p. 93
Neo-Physiocratic and Biophysical Models of the Economic Process
Introduction	p. 95
Generational Concerns	p. 95
General Systems, Open Systems, and Living Systems	p. 99
Living Systems and Economic Systems: Political Economy in the Broad Sense	p. 122
Models of the Biophysical Approach to the Economic Process	p. 132
Conclusions	p. 159
Beyond Entropy and the Economic Process: Broadening Economic Analysis from a Systems Theoretical Approach
Introduction	p. 162
Complexification through Differentiation	p. 164
Living Systems, Organizational Dissonance, and Cybernetics	p. 171
The Problem of Wholes and Their Complexity	p. 182
Living Systems, Autopoietic and Allopoietic Systems	p. 187
Hierarchy of Finalities and the General Principle of Descending Constraints	p. 200
Political Economy for the Epoch of the Noosphere	p. 206
Conclusions	p. 223
General Conclusions	p. 227
Notes	p. 231
Glossary	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 317
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