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Environmental Sustainability in a Sraffian Framework

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This article expands the Sraffian framework to address environmental sustainability by showing how to define and measure what ecological economists call “throughput†and increases in throughput efficiency. In the process it clarifies issues that are often muddled in the steady-state and de-growth literatures. JEL classification: B51, Q55, Q56

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  • Robin Hahnel, 2017. "Environmental Sustainability in a Sraffian Framework," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 49(3), pages 477-488, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:49:y:2017:i:3:p:477-488
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613415616215
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    Keywords

    Sraffa; environmental throughput; sustainability; technical change;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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