AUC Philosophica et Historica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica) is a multidisciplinary academic journal focused on the humanities with more than 50 years of tradition.
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AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA, Vol 2009 No 1 (2009), 23–34
Změny ve stylu ekonomického myšlení – šance pro trvale udržitelný rozvoj společnosti nebo pro zelený ekonomický růst?
Eva Cudlínová
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2018.10
published online: 12. 01. 2018
abstract
New style of economic thinking appeared in the 1970s. These new economic trends which were focused on environment as a part of economic theory are known as environmental and resource economics. The emergence of new style of economic thinking was reaction to the great changes – energetic crises and degradation of nature and natural resources. Economists focused on these problems were not divided into any specific fields. They tried to solve the questions of limits of economic growth and relationship between economic and biophysical cycles. Later the former ecological oriented branch of economists divided into different branches – environmental and resource economics and ecological economics. The main topics of interest for environmental and resource economists were internalization of externalities and searching for methods of valuing natural resources. They paid attention just to social effects of environmental problems and tried to change the imperfect market functioning through internalization of environmental externalities. Ecological economics is based on biophysical and energetic conception of mutual linkages between economy and nature. The main goals of ecological economics is to find the adequate dimension of economy in relation with the planet Earth and fair distribution of resources among states and generations. At present a new economic field of thinking is appearing, it is a green economy. Its concept ought to be the same as ecological economics and the main goal is to achieve the sustainable development. This study tries to compare all these new concepts of economics in relation to the main idea of sustainable development. The main philosophy of green economy is a support of new green technologies and new green jobs seems to be closer to environmental than ecological economics. It seems to us that the main goal of a green economy is not sustainable development but a “green economic growth”.
