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A Planetary EconomyThe Economy’s Coevolution with Nature

A Planetary Economy: The Economy’s Coevolution with Nature [This chapter outlines the current and projected material scale of the economy: its inputs from, and outputs to, nature. The modern economy is materially so large that it alters natural processes, and is affected by them in turn. Nature and the economy coevolve. This unique situation has arisen through a cycle of credit, technology and population growth within human society, spreading over the past 500 years from Europe to the rest of the world. For the economy to persist in the long run, it must become materially much more efficient, through a program of material discipline: the material equivalent of fiscal discipline. This will necessitate recirculating most of the economy’s material internally. We already have the physical technologies to do this, but not yet the social technologies. This book outlines the kinds of social technologies that will be needed.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-49295-3
Pages
3 –34
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-49296-0_1
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter outlines the current and projected material scale of the economy: its inputs from, and outputs to, nature. The modern economy is materially so large that it alters natural processes, and is affected by them in turn. Nature and the economy coevolve. This unique situation has arisen through a cycle of credit, technology and population growth within human society, spreading over the past 500 years from Europe to the rest of the world. For the economy to persist in the long run, it must become materially much more efficient, through a program of material discipline: the material equivalent of fiscal discipline. This will necessitate recirculating most of the economy’s material internally. We already have the physical technologies to do this, but not yet the social technologies. This book outlines the kinds of social technologies that will be needed.]

Published: Aug 28, 2020

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