The approach of ecological economics
讨论了生态经济学的核心原则，包括价值多元论、方法多元论和多标准政策评估，认为其为新古典福利经济学提供了可行的替代方案，并有望重塑经济科学的范围和方法。
This paper discusses the major tenets of ecological economics--including value pluralism, methodological pluralism and multi-criteria policy assessment. Ecological economics offers viable alternatives to the theoretical foundations and policy recommendations of neoclassical welfare economics. A revolution in neoclassical economics is currently taking place, and the core assumptions of welfare economics are being replaced with more realistic models of consumer and firm behaviour. This paper argues that these new theoretical and empirical findings are largely ignored in applied work and policy applications in environmental economics. As the only heterodox school of economics focusing on the human economy both as a social system and as one imbedded in the biophysical universe, and thus both holistic and scientifically based, ecological economics is poised to play a leading role in recasting the scope and method of economic science. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.