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Reorienting to social ecological economics
The preanalytic vision
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Trying to define a preanalytic vision as an explicit cognitive act is not an easy task and especially if the hope, as here, is to make this more comprehensive and extend from philosophy of science to ideology and axiology. Social ecological economics can be understood as in opposition to two paradigmatic positions, one constituted by economic growth and the other price-making markets. This chapter outlines the foundations in the natural sciences. It then turns to the overarching aims of economic science and the need to redefine them away from the orthodox goals of growth and efficiency, and towards social provisioning. This is followed by outlining four areas where social ecological economics develops interdisciplinary and heterodox thought: human behaviour; ethics and value; non-human Nature; and institutions. The chapter ends with a summary of positions that constitute social ecological economics in terms of ontology, epistemology, methodology, axiology and ideology.

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Foundations of social ecological economics

The fight for revolutionary change in economic thought

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