On Sustainability and the Economics of Survival
探讨可持续性与生存策略对经济分析的影响,回顾经济学家与生物学家研究生存问题的方法联系,强调不可逆性和不确定性在可持续性问题中的作用。
Abstract This paper investigates the implications of sustainability and survival strategies for economic analysis. It reviews connections between the approaches used by economists and biological scientists in the study of survival. The paper emphasizes the role of irreversibility and uncertainty in the investigation of sustainability issues. Implications of the results for the analysis of economic behavior are discussed.