Ecological Economics Blog Introduction

We are hopeful that this conversation will take root, grow, and blossom. This is a multi-author blog, with my main role being web administrator/minor contributor. Some of our other blogs touch sometimes on issues of sustainability. Daniel O'Connor's Catallaxis does so, as does my Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares. So does Steve Keen's Debunking Economics and David Jeffery's Okios.  Sometimes we will cross-post from our other blogs, but mainly the Ecological Economics discussion will be here.

In addition to discussing Ecological Economics, we intend to compliment or counter stuff that appears ever-more-frequently on the Environmental Economics weblog. Note that Environmental Economics has its own URL. We can site-map too, and mask the 'forestpolicy' stuff that now sits on the URL for this trial version of this Ecological Economics blog. Or we may want to move it elsewhere and let someone other than I be administrator. Mostly I just want the conversation to flourish.

To see just how popular the Environmental Economics blog has become, try this link: http://www.env-econ.net/2005/10/blog_stats_stra.html

Comments

[J.S.]

I challenge anyone in EE to come up with a definition of sustainability, carrying capacity, or any of the other terms that they throw around that is actually OPERATIONAL. Second, the underpinning of much EE that advocates will rarely fess up to is that they want a massively expanded role of government in setting the economy on its "appropriate path" and telling people what to consume and how much- the centralization of power implicit in EE philosophy borders on authoritarianism at its core- just ask Josh Farley, author of the recent textbook on EE- who will willingly tell you how people don't realize the bad things they consume which the government needs to regulate and ration. EE is essentially paternalistic. Ok, ok, yeah, you got me, I really don't like EE too much....anyway, if someone in EE wants to debate let's start...