Overcoming accumulation: Is a capitalist steady-state economy possible?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 254-261

  Blauwhof, Frederik Berend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capital accumulation; Capitalism; Crisis; Ecological economics; Growth; Marxian economics; Policy; Reform; Steady state economy

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GLOBAL ECONOMY; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REFORM PROCESS; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84869144390     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.03.012     Document Type: Review

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