Author: Stokes, Kenneth M.
Title: Man and the Biosphere: Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy
Description: Armonk / London, M.E. Sharpe, (1994). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xii, 323 pp. Textual charts. Slight bump to rear cover corner, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Philosophical Origins of Open-Systems Economic Analysis: Historical Backround to the Development of Economic Thought; The Origins of Political Economy; The Concept of Nature in the Totality Theory of Marx and Engels; Broadening Economic Analysis: The Early Contribution of the General Theory of Organization: Discovery of Thermodynamics & the Collapse of the Laplacean Prototype; Unity of Scientific Knowledge; Contributions of N.I. Bukharin; Heretical Philosophers of Social Energetics; The Physiocracy of Frederick Soddy; Neo-Physiocratic & Biophysical Models of the Economic Process: Generational Concerns; General Systems, Open Systems & Living Systems; Living Systems & Economic Systems: Political Economy in the Broad Sense; Models of the Biophysical Approach to Political Economy; Beyond Entropy & the Economic Process: Broadening Economic Analysis from a Systems Theoretical Approach: Complexification through Differentiation; Living Systems, Organizational Dissonance & Cybernetics; The Problem of Wholes & Their Complexity; Living Systems, Autopoietic & Allopoietic Systems; Hierarchy of Finalities & the General Principle of Descending Constraints; Political Economy for the Epoch of the Noosphere; General Conclusions.

Keywords: Ecological Philosophy, Environmental, Marxian Economics, Systems Theory, Human Ecology, Biosphere System, Political Economy, Environment, Marxist Economic