Robin Hahnel

Abstract

This article expands the Sraffian framework to address environmental sustainability by showing how to define and measure what ecological economists call “throughput” and increases in throughput efficiency. In the process it clarifies issues that are often muddled in the steady-state and de-growth literatures.

Keywords

Sraffa, environmental throughput, sustainability, technical change

From: Review of Radical Political Economics 2017 49 (3)

Editor: Wang Yi