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Economie et écologie :débats sur leurs rapports contradictoires (Economy and ecology: debates on their contradictory relations)

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  • Sophie Boutillier

    (labrii, ULCO)

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L’économie naît officiellement en 1776 avec A. Smith, l’écologie un siècle plus tard avec E. Haeckel. Pour les économistes, la nature est un ensemble de ressources valorisables. Seul le travail multiplie la richesse. A partir des années 1920, les économistes néoclassiques sont conduits à remettre en question l’infaillibilité du marché avec le concept des externalités qui donnera naissance dans les années 1970 au principe du pollueur-payeur. Vite remis en question, ce principe a été remplacé par le marché des permis d’émission basé sur la théorie de R. Coase. La propriété privée reste la base de la démonstration économique, comment dans ces conditions, est-il possible de lutter efficacement contre la pollution dont les conséquences (négatives) dépassent toujours l’espace étroit de la propriété individuelle ? The economic science was born officially in 1776 with A. Smith, ecology a century later with E. Haeckel. For the economists, the nature is a set of valorizable resources. Labour is the main source of wealth. In the 1920’s, the neo-classical economists question the power of market with the concept of externalities which gives birth to the principle of polluting-payer. Quickly challenged, this principle has been replaced by the market of polluting rights based on the Coase’s theory. As the private property remains the basis of the economic demonstration, in which extent, is it possible to struggle against pollution whose negative consequences pass over the narrow space of individual property?

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  • Sophie Boutillier, 2003. "Economie et écologie :débats sur leurs rapports contradictoires (Economy and ecology: debates on their contradictory relations)," Working Papers 64, Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et l'Innovation. ULCO / Research Unit on Industry and Innovation.
  • Handle: RePEc:rii:riidoc:64
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    Keywords

    Economie; écologie; pollueur-payeur; pollution/economic science; ecology; polluting-payer; pollution;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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