Sociedad y naturaleza: dimensiones de la economía ecológica. El sentido de la sociedad en la historia: un ensayo

Pedro Félix Hernández Ornelas

doi:10.32399/ICSYH.bvbuap.2954-4300.2016.17.25.624

Authors

Pedro Félix Hernández Ornelas Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades “Alfonso Vélez Pliego”, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0440-4729

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32399/ICSYH.bvbuap.2954-4300.2016.17.25.624

Keywords:

ecological economics, society and nature, Georgescu-Roegen, complex systems

Abstract

Economics is a discipline of knowledge that studies human relations at work; knowledge of this cultural activity is therefore bound up with the rest of the social sciences within the framework of their history. The arrival of a new, more comprehensive vision of the tasks of economics, thanks to the thought of Georgescu-Roegen in the mid-twentieth century, marks the birth of a very current branch of economic theory called “Ecological Economics.” In the opinion of many scientists, it represents a renewing reconsideration of economic theory: to begin with, it rests on the profound reality of the kinship of human beings with the rest of the elements of nature. On this rests the fundamental premise of Ecological Economics: the basis of the economy is the energy-matter of natural elements transformed by human beings. Another characteristic of Ecological Economics is its insertion into complex-systems thinking and its rejection of the individualist ethic that marks the ideology of neoliberal capitalism. All of the above provides a platform for multiple relations with sociology and the rest of the social sciences.

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