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Species Commodification

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  • Giles Austen
  • Sarah M. Jennings
  • Jeffrey M. Dambacher

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A theoretically promised confluence of favorable biological, economic, and social outcomes in neoliberal solutions for fisheries is illusory. The required commodification of the fish, including the species and accompanying oceanic commons enclosures, result in contradictions that cannot be understood within the neoclassical economic paradigm. A process of dialectical abstraction and qualitative modeling exposes the source and mechanism of the contradictions providing an alternative basis for discourse on the fishery and the commons.

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  • Giles Austen & Sarah M. Jennings & Jeffrey M. Dambacher, 2016. "Species Commodification," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 48(1), pages 20-35, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:48:y:2016:i:1:p:20-35
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613415586980
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    Keywords

    commons; fishery; dialectic; commodification; qualitative modeling;
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    JEL classification:

    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
    • Q22 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Fishery

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