The poverty of sustainability: Rescuing economics from platitudes

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 201-210

  Bromley, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Institutions; Purposes of nature; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POVERTY; SOCIAL POLICY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 32044439531     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0169-5150.2004.00024.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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