Chapter 23: Economics, Environment, and Sustainability

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Perverse subsidies

Lead to environmental damage and should be phased out.

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Economic succession

New and more innovative businesses.

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Economic growth

Increased capacity to supply goods and services, requires increased production and consumption, requires more consumers.

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Natural capital

Includes resources and services produced by the earth's natural processes, which support all economies and all life

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Human capital, human resources

Includes people's physical and mental talents that provide labor, organizational and management skills, and innovation

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Manufactured capital, manufactured resources

Includes people's physical and mental talents that provide labor, organizational and management skills, and innovation

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Economic growth

Increased capacity to supply goods and services, requires increased production and consumption, requires more consumers

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Economic development

Improvement of living standards

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Neoclassical economists

View the earths natural capital as part of a human economic system

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Ecological economists

View human economic systems as subsystems of the biosphere, and believe that conventional economic growth will become unsustainable

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Market price

Does not include indirect, external, or hidden costs

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Full-cost pricing

Includes estimated costs of harmful environmental and health effects of production

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Perverse subsidies

Lead to environmental damage and should be phased out

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Greenwashing

Deceptive practice and spin of environmentally harmful products as green

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Environmental regulation

Control pollution and reduce environmental degradation

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Developed countries

spend 0.7% of the national budget toward these goals

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Economic succession

New and more innovative businesses

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Centrally Planned Economy

the government determines production and distribution

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Free Market Economy

private individuals and companies determine production and distribution

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Neoclassical Economists

view the earth's natural capital as a subset of a human economic system

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