Introduction to
Ecological Economics

Sub-modules

• Principles and Policy

  • Alternative Policies, Institutions, and Instruments to Implement Ecological Economics Principles
  • Principles of Ecological Economics

• Ecological Systems

  • Current status of resources and systems thinking
  • Resources of nature and nature of resources

• Human Subsystem

  • Human behavior and its relevance to resource allocation
  • Macroeconomics
  • Market failures
  • Markets and price theory
  • Microeconomics

  • Microeconomics

    • Market failures
    • Markets and price theory

  • Macroeconomics

    • Distribution
    • GNP and welfare
    • IS/LM model
    • Money

• Pre-Analytic Vision

  • Differentiating between neoclassical and ecological economics
  • History and evolution of ecological economics
  • Societal challenges and paradigm shift