Nature as adversary
The Rise of Modern Economic Conceptions of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7447281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Earl Gammon (0000-0002-3755-6788, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-246 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085141003620154 |
| OpenAlex | W2050439736 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 41 |
This article problematizes the reliance of ecological economics on neo-classical economic analysis by revealing an adversarial conception of nature in modern economic ontology. It traces the rise in post-classical economics of this adversarial conception, which superseded the idea of a natural moral economy in classical political economy. The origins of this transformation in the conception of nature are located in the breakdown of the long-standing project of natural theology in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century, precipitated by the geological controversies of the 1820s and 1830s
Adversarial system · Adversary · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Moral economy · Natural (archaeology · Neoclassical economics · Ontology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Political Economy and Marxism · History · Law · Philosophy
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More Heat than Light
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Before the Deluge
David Ricardo
Bridging the Natural and the Social
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The Life and Economics of David Ricardo
Mechanical Rationality
Alfred Marshall, W. Stanley Jevons, and the Mathematization of Economics
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The Consistency of Adam Smith
The hidden theology of Adam Smith
The Malthus-Ricardo correspondence
The Age of Atonement
Moral Revolution and Economic Science
The Changing Theological Context of Economic Analysis since the Eighteenth Century
The Genesis of the Copernican World
Swift and the World-Makers
Malthus' Theological Ideas andl their Influence on his Principle of Population
On Ricardo's Method
The "Spirit of System" and the Fortunes of Physiocracy
Adam Smith's Debts to Nature
Underwriting the Oeconomy
A History of the Modern Fact
The Theory of Political Economy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |