Department of Economics, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York, USA.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2011 Feb;1219:185-96. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05922.x.
Ecological economics remains unfinished in its effort to provide a framework for transforming the economy so that it is compatible with biophysical limits. Great strides have been made in valuing natural capital and ecosystem services and recognizing the need to limit the scale of economic activity, but the question of how to effectively transform the economy to limit the scale of economic activity remains unclear. To gain clarity about the institutional changes necessary to limit the scale of economic activity, it is essential that ecological economics understands the limitations of its neoclassical roots and expands its theoretical framework to include how markets are embedded in social and institutional structures. This has long been the domain of institutional economics and heterodox political economy.
生态经济学在努力为经济转型提供框架以使其与生物物理限制相兼容方面仍未完成。在评估自然资本和生态系统服务价值以及认识到需要限制经济活动规模方面已经取得了重大进展，但如何有效地实现经济转型以限制经济活动规模的问题仍然不清楚。为了明确限制经济活动规模所需的制度变革，生态经济学必须了解其新古典主义根源的局限性，并扩展其理论框架，以包括市场如何嵌入社会和制度结构。这一直是制度经济学和异端政治经济学的领域。
