From: Francisco Paulo Cipolla (cipolla@UFPR.BR)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 17:34:20 EDT
Paul, are you aware of Andriana Vlachou´s paper on Nature and Value Theory (Science and Society Vol. 66, no. 2, Summer 2002, 169-201)? If I were starting a course on environmental economics froma marxian perspective I would certainly use it as a starting point. Decades ago the author of the Fiscal Crisis of the State (I forget his name: James O´Connor?) wrote something on ecology that stayed in my mind for a long while but I wouldn´t be able to give you the exact references. I hope you send your syllabus tothe list one of these days! Paulo Paul Zarembka wrote: > Jerry, > > For the first time in my life I'm teaching environmental economics > and becoming much more aware of fossil fuel depletion and global warming. > > I don't know how to fit the Amish into modes of production issues (inc. > capitalism), but I do know that the recent book *Powerdown* offers the > Amish as a lesson how at least some could simply survive the end of the > fossil fuel era. In any case, in no way was I suggesting the Amish form > of production as a model within capitalism. Capitalism is itself the > problem. > > Sorry, but I don't have a big program to offer anyone; it's all too scary! > > Paul Z. > > ************************************************************************* > Vol.21-Neoliberalism in Crisis, Accumulation, and Rosa Luxemburg's Legacy > RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Zarembka/Soederberg, eds, Elsevier Science > ********************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Gerald A. Levy wrote: > > > Hi Paul Z. > > > > > Since Sept. 13, the Nader/Camejo web site carries every day a new > > > 'featured national asset', today being The Amish. Without saying so but > > > connected to yesterday's press release for the Nader/Camejo Campaign -- > > > "Global Climate Change Requires Us to Break Our Addiction to Fossil > > > Fuels", it offers a way forward as humanity destroys millions of years of > > > fossil fuel build-up. > > > > While Amish communities can not be considered to be "Utopian > > Socialist" -- perhaps "Utopian Capitalist" might be a better description -- > > the belief that the Amish experience and lifestyle can be generalized > > while the capitalist mode of production dominates and this "offers a > > way forward" could be subjected to a critique similar to Marx's critique > > of Utopians like Owen and Fourier, don't you think? Of course, > > many radical environmentalists -- including a lot of my anarchist > > friends -- reject that critique of Marx and defend Utopianism. > > The ideology of the Green Party is, at least partially, self-consciously > > Utopian, I think. > > > > "Is small beautiful?" is a related question. > > > > In solidarity, Jerry > > > > > >
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