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Utilitarianism And Sustainable Development: Can They Meet Each Other?

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  • João Pedro Garcia Araujo

    (Universidade Veiga de Almeida)

  • Gustavo Inácio de Moraes

    (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul)

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss utilitarianism capability to lead to sustainable development, considering the relationship between utilitarian principles and neoclassical economic theory, and the solutions presented by the latter to the environmental problems. Taking the fields of History and Economic Theory as a baseline, our analysis points out how neoclassical school was influenced by utilitarianism and which solutions were offered by this school to the environmental problems. Considering the concept of sustainable development from the report Our Common Future and the idea of a multidimensional sustainability, with economic, social and environmental dimensions, we concluded that neoclassical tools cannot offer actually sustainable solutions due to an incompatibility between their utilitarian epistemological foundations and the assumptions of sustainability.

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  • João Pedro Garcia Araujo & Gustavo Inácio de Moraes, 2016. "Utilitarianism And Sustainable Development: Can They Meet Each Other?," Revista de Economia Mackenzie (REM), Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Social and Applied Sciences Center, vol. 13(1), pages 187-208, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:aft:journl:v:13:1:2016:jul:p:187-208
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