Pierre Desrochers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3671465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Desrochers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Desrochers |
| SIGNATURE | DESROCHERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7200-3847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Care to Wager Again? An Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich's Counterbet Offer to Julian Simon, Part 1
Objective This paper provides the first comprehensive assessment of the outcome of Paul Ehrlich and Stephen Schneider's counteroffer (1995) to economist Julian Simon following Ehrlich's loss in the famous Ehrlich‐Simon wager on economic growth and the price of natural resources (1980‐1990). Methods Literature review, data gathering and critical assessment of the indicators and proxies suggested or implied by Ehrlich and Schneider. Critical assess…
Care to Wager Again? An Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich's Counterbet Offer to Julian Simon, Part 2
Objective This paper provides the first comprehensive assessment of the outcome of Paul Ehrlich's and Stephen Schneider's counteroffer (1995) to economist Julian Simon following Ehrlich's loss in the famous Ehrlich‐Simon wager on economic growth and the price of natural resources (1980‐1990). Our main conclusion in a previous article is that, for indicators that can be measured satisfactorily or can be inferred from proxies, the outcome favors Eh…
Creative Cities and Regions
In their recent discussion of the Richard Florida and Jane Jacobs‐inspired ‘creative cities’ policy literature, Hospers and Pen argue that despite increasingly more effective ‘space shrinking’ technologies, cities remain among the most suitable locations for creative activities of all types. This paper supplements their contribution by documenting more concretely how economically diversified cities provide a fertile environment for the discovery …
Opening up the 'Jacobs Spillovers' black box
Despite numerous attempts to isolate the respective importance of intra- and inter-industrial localized knowledge spillovers, their underlying processes have remained hidden. This article aims to provide a better theoretical understanding of the nature of inter-industrial or ‘Jacobs spillovers’ through a broad interdisciplinary literature review and additional evidence gained from a qualitative survey of Canadian inventors. The main stylized proc…
The Wealth and Poverty of Regions. Why Cities Matter
The Wealth and Poverty of Regions. Why Cities Matter, Mario Polese, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (2010), xxvi + 254 pp. US$29.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226673158. The Wealth and Poverty of Reg
Knowledge in the Development of Economies
Victorian Pioneers of Corporate Sustainability
Historical scholarship on business—environment interactions has largely sidestepped the study of corporate innovations that had both economic and environmental benefits. This issue is examined through late-nineteenth-century initiatives sponsored by the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, whose aim was to document and promote the creation of profitable by-products out of polluting industrial waste and emissio…
Does the invisible hand have a green thumb? Incentives, linkages, and the creation of wealth out of industrial waste in Victorian England
Loop closing', that is, the creation of waste recycling linkages between different industries, has been hailed as a means of simultaneously achieving improved economic and environmental performance. As a result of the widespread assumption that traditional market incentives and institutions are not conducive to such an outcome, however, there remains a fair amount of scepticism as to what the capacity of business self-interest to promote this beh…
How did the Invisible Hand Handle Industrial Waste? By-product Development before the Modern Environmental Era
A growing number of historians have turned their attention to the past behavior of industrialists toward their waste. Many have argued that the price system and competition typically fostered a short-term outlook that rewarded pollution rather than encouraging “loop-closing,” a modern term that refers to the linkages between different industries in which the residual of one becomes the input of another. Others have identified precedents in this r…
De l'importance de la diversité économique locale pour l'innovation technique et la valorisation des résidus industriels
De l’importance de la diversité économique locale pour l’innovation technique et la valorisation des résidus industriels. An article from journal Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Les chantiers de la géographie), on Érudit
Truth for Its Own Sake
On the failure of socialist economies to close the loop on industrial by-products
In her article ‘Legacy of Waste or Wasted Legacy? The End of Industrial Ecology in Post-Socialist Hungary’, Zsuzsa Gille [2000] documents the attempts and ultimate failures of Hungarian central planners to institute several decades ago an approach very similar to current industrial ecology and ecological modernisation perspectives. Gille deplores the fall of these institutions with the collapse of state socialism and suggests that current policy …
Cities and Industrial Symbiosis
The exchange of wastes, by‐products, and energy among closely situated firms in the Danish city of Kalundborg has become the impetus to and main template for the movement to plan ecoindustrial parks. In recent years, however, similar by‐product exchange patterns have been observed in other regions of Europe and North America. Evidence also indicates that cities have historically played an important role in facilitating the creation of recycling l…
Market Processes and the Closing of ’Industrial Loops’
Many industrial ecologists assume that traditional economic development was characterized by a linear approach in which materials and energy were extracted, processed, used, and dumped in a linear flow into, through, and out of the economy. Much historical evidence, however, indicates that industrial resource recovery was much more widespread than currently thought. This article reviews the available evidence by introducing the reader to earlier …
Truth for Its Own Sake
Opening up the 'Jacobs Spillovers' black box
Despite numerous attempts to isolate the respective importance of intra- and inter-industrial localized knowledge spillovers, their underlying processes have remained hidden. This article aims to provide a better theoretical understanding of the nature of inter-industrial or ‘Jacobs spillovers’ through a broad interdisciplinary literature review and additional evidence gained from a qualitative survey of Canadian inventors. The main stylized proc…
Victorian Pioneers of Corporate Sustainability
Historical scholarship on business—environment interactions has largely sidestepped the study of corporate innovations that had both economic and environmental benefits. This issue is examined through late-nineteenth-century initiatives sponsored by the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, whose aim was to document and promote the creation of profitable by-products out of polluting industrial waste and emissio…
Does the invisible hand have a green thumb? Incentives, linkages, and the creation of wealth out of industrial waste in Victorian England
Loop closing', that is, the creation of waste recycling linkages between different industries, has been hailed as a means of simultaneously achieving improved economic and environmental performance. As a result of the widespread assumption that traditional market incentives and institutions are not conducive to such an outcome, however, there remains a fair amount of scepticism as to what the capacity of business self-interest to promote this beh…
The Wealth and Poverty of Regions. Why Cities Matter
The Wealth and Poverty of Regions. Why Cities Matter, Mario Polese, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (2010), xxvi + 254 pp. US$29.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226673158. The Wealth and Poverty of Reg
How did the Invisible Hand Handle Industrial Waste? By-product Development before the Modern Environmental Era
A growing number of historians have turned their attention to the past behavior of industrialists toward their waste. Many have argued that the price system and competition typically fostered a short-term outlook that rewarded pollution rather than encouraging “loop-closing,” a modern term that refers to the linkages between different industries in which the residual of one becomes the input of another. Others have identified precedents in this r…
On the failure of socialist economies to close the loop on industrial by-products
In her article ‘Legacy of Waste or Wasted Legacy? The End of Industrial Ecology in Post-Socialist Hungary’, Zsuzsa Gille [2000] documents the attempts and ultimate failures of Hungarian central planners to institute several decades ago an approach very similar to current industrial ecology and ecological modernisation perspectives. Gille deplores the fall of these institutions with the collapse of state socialism and suggests that current policy …
Market Processes and the Closing of ’Industrial Loops’
Many industrial ecologists assume that traditional economic development was characterized by a linear approach in which materials and energy were extracted, processed, used, and dumped in a linear flow into, through, and out of the economy. Much historical evidence, however, indicates that industrial resource recovery was much more widespread than currently thought. This article reviews the available evidence by introducing the reader to earlier …
Cities and Industrial Symbiosis
The exchange of wastes, by‐products, and energy among closely situated firms in the Danish city of Kalundborg has become the impetus to and main template for the movement to plan ecoindustrial parks. In recent years, however, similar by‐product exchange patterns have been observed in other regions of Europe and North America. Evidence also indicates that cities have historically played an important role in facilitating the creation of recycling l…
On the failure of socialist economies to close the loop on industrial by-products
In her article ‘Legacy of Waste or Wasted Legacy? The End of Industrial Ecology in Post-Socialist Hungary’, Zsuzsa Gille [2000] documents the attempts and ultimate failures of Hungarian central planners to institute several decades ago an approach very similar to current industrial ecology and ecological modernisation perspectives. Gille deplores the fall of these institutions with the collapse of state socialism and suggests that current policy …
Truth for Its Own Sake
De l'importance de la diversité économique locale pour l'innovation technique et la valorisation des résidus industriels
De l’importance de la diversité économique locale pour l’innovation technique et la valorisation des résidus industriels. An article from journal Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Les chantiers de la géographie), on Érudit
How did the Invisible Hand Handle Industrial Waste? By-product Development before the Modern Environmental Era
A growing number of historians have turned their attention to the past behavior of industrialists toward their waste. Many have argued that the price system and competition typically fostered a short-term outlook that rewarded pollution rather than encouraging “loop-closing,” a modern term that refers to the linkages between different industries in which the residual of one becomes the input of another. Others have identified precedents in this r…
Victorian Pioneers of Corporate Sustainability
Historical scholarship on business—environment interactions has largely sidestepped the study of corporate innovations that had both economic and environmental benefits. This issue is examined through late-nineteenth-century initiatives sponsored by the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, whose aim was to document and promote the creation of profitable by-products out of polluting industrial waste and emissio…
Does the invisible hand have a green thumb? Incentives, linkages, and the creation of wealth out of industrial waste in Victorian England
Loop closing', that is, the creation of waste recycling linkages between different industries, has been hailed as a means of simultaneously achieving improved economic and environmental performance. As a result of the widespread assumption that traditional market incentives and institutions are not conducive to such an outcome, however, there remains a fair amount of scepticism as to what the capacity of business self-interest to promote this beh…
Opening up the 'Jacobs Spillovers' black box
Despite numerous attempts to isolate the respective importance of intra- and inter-industrial localized knowledge spillovers, their underlying processes have remained hidden. This article aims to provide a better theoretical understanding of the nature of inter-industrial or ‘Jacobs spillovers’ through a broad interdisciplinary literature review and additional evidence gained from a qualitative survey of Canadian inventors. The main stylized proc…
The Wealth and Poverty of Regions. Why Cities Matter
The Wealth and Poverty of Regions. Why Cities Matter, Mario Polese, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (2010), xxvi + 254 pp. US$29.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226673158. The Wealth and Poverty of Reg
Knowledge in the Development of Economies
Creative Cities and Regions
In their recent discussion of the Richard Florida and Jane Jacobs‐inspired ‘creative cities’ policy literature, Hospers and Pen argue that despite increasingly more effective ‘space shrinking’ technologies, cities remain among the most suitable locations for creative activities of all types. This paper supplements their contribution by documenting more concretely how economically diversified cities provide a fertile environment for the discovery …
Care to Wager Again? An Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich's Counterbet Offer to Julian Simon, Part 1
Objective This paper provides the first comprehensive assessment of the outcome of Paul Ehrlich and Stephen Schneider's counteroffer (1995) to economist Julian Simon following Ehrlich's loss in the famous Ehrlich‐Simon wager on economic growth and the price of natural resources (1980‐1990). Methods Literature review, data gathering and critical assessment of the indicators and proxies suggested or implied by Ehrlich and Schneider. Critical assess…
Care to Wager Again? An Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich's Counterbet Offer to Julian Simon, Part 2
Objective This paper provides the first comprehensive assessment of the outcome of Paul Ehrlich's and Stephen Schneider's counteroffer (1995) to economist Julian Simon following Ehrlich's loss in the famous Ehrlich‐Simon wager on economic growth and the price of natural resources (1980‐1990). Our main conclusion in a previous article is that, for indicators that can be measured satisfactorily or can be inferred from proxies, the outcome favors Eh…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Sustainable Industrial Ecology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Market economy (4 works)