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| Author(s): |
Beatriz Macchione Saes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Economia |
| Defense date: | 2013-04-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Ademar Ribeiro Romeiro;
Bastiaan Reydon;
Daniel Caixeta Andrade
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| Advisor: | Ademar Ribeiro Romeiro |
| Abstract | |
The main objective of this dissertation is to discuss the need for an analytical framework that can be called ecological macroeconomics and systematize the debate on the subject. This work has hypothesized that there is a deficiency in ecological economics, of a methodological character, with regard to the discussion of macroeconomic policies. The economic-ecological approach, which considers the biophysical and entropic nature of the economic process, generates a paradigmatic criticism of mainstream economics. However, a macroeconomics corresponding to this vision has not yet been consolidated. We believe that this consolidation would be an important advance, since it would ground the discussion of macroeconomic policies and reforms consistent with the purpose of facilitating environmentally sustainable economy. This goal depends on understanding relationships between ecological and economic systems, characterized by great uncertainty and complexity, and determining the optimal scale of the macroeconomy - which implies the need to abandon the goal of promoting unlimited economic growth. Given the perspective of ecological economics, we identified that the effort to build an ecological macroeconomics has taken two directions. The first is that of deepening and systematizing two initiatives that propose a post-growth society - steady-state and degrowth. The other is that of building macroeconomic models that enable including the relationships between economic environmental variables, which work with limits to the scale of the economic system. We conclude by stating that although significant progress has been made, the ecological macroeconomics still has vague contours, requiring greater efforts to consolidate it (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/03842-7 - Policies of transition to an economy without growth: analysis of proposals related to consumption, employment, technology and social inequality |
| Grantee: | Beatriz Macchione Saes |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |