Ecological economics, Marxism, and technological progress: Some explorations of the conceptual foundations of theories of ecologically unequal exchange

Ecological Economics

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-18

  Hornborg, Alf ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecological economics; Economic value; Energy; Marxism; Progress; Technology; Thermodynamics; Utopianism

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84901918029     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.05.015     Document Type: Article

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