| Economics and Ecological Policy | p. 1 |
| Economics and the problem of sustainability | p. 1 |
| Which course to take? | p. 4 |
| Economists' Political Role | p. 4 |
| Economic Practice within a Political Context | p. 9 |
| An ecologically successful economics | p. 12 |
| Two Standards for an Ecologically Successful Economics | p. 12 |
| A Confrontation between David Pearce and Daniel Bromley | p. 13 |
| Outline of the book | p. 13 |
| Conclusion | p. 14 |
| The Economic and the Political Sphere | p. 17 |
| Economic and political theories as conceptual constructs | p. 18 |
| Weber: Social Sciences as Ideal-Typical Conceptual Constructs | p. 18 |
| Neurath: Sciences as Historically Contingent Conceptual Constructs | p. 21 |
| Conclusion | p. 24 |
| Four conceptual constructs of the economic sphere | p. 25 |
| Buchanan's political theory | p. 29 |
| Public Choice Theory as an Extension of Economics | p. 29 |
| Political actors as Homines Oeconomici | p. 31 |
| More Markets, Less Government | p. 32 |
| Processes as the Touch Stone of Politics | p. 32 |
| Conclusion | p. 34 |
| Deliberative democracy | p. 34 |
| Economic versus Political Decision Units | p. 35 |
| "Homines Oeconomici" versus "Homines Politici" | p. 35 |
| "Goods and Services" versus "Laws" | p. 37 |
| Economic versus Political Institutions | p. 39 |
| Conclusions | p. 40 |
| Politics and sustainability | p. 42 |
| Conclusions | p. 43 |
| The institutional and ecological dimension of an economy | p. 47 |
| Institutions | p. 48 |
| Institutions as the Symbolic Dimension of Action | p. 48 |
| Institutions as Historical Entities | p. 52 |
| Institutions as Simultaneously Restricting and Enabling Entities | p. 53 |
| Laws as "Public Facts" | p. 55 |
| Summary | p. 56 |
| Institutional organisation and ecological performance of an economy | p. 57 |
| Economic Institutions | p. 57 |
| Institutions Defining Economic Decision Units | p. 57 |
| Institutions Conditioning Economic Rationality | p. 57 |
| Institutions Defining Economic Goods and Services | p. 61 |
| Summary | p. 63 |
| The Institutional Whole of an Economy | p. 64 |
| Economy's Ecological Performance | p. 65 |
| Relevance of the "Institutional Whole" | p. 68 |
| Meaning of the "Institutional Whole" | p. 70 |
| Conclusion | p. 76 |
| Conclusion | p. 77 |
| Four norms for a politically successful economics | p. 79 |
| Objective | p. 80 |
| Descriptive and explanatory | p. 82 |
| Weber: Pure Economics as a Political Toolbox | p. 82 |
| Pure Economics: Technically Applicable | p. 83 |
| Pure Economics: Theoretically, Empirically or Practically Valid? | p. 86 |
| Two Objections | p. 88 |
| A Historically Contingent Multiplicity of Economic Paradigms | p. 89 |
| Conclusion | p. 91 |
| Neurath: Economic Theories as Scientific Utopias | p. 91 |
| The Scientific Meaning of Prediction | p. 92 |
| Pseudo-Rationalism | p. 93 |
| Unified Science | p. 94 |
| The Political Relevance of Scientific Utopias | p. 96 |
| Conclusion | p. 99 |
| Economic Theories as Political Muses | p. 100 |
| Impartial knowledge | p. 102 |
| Conclusion | p. 104 |
| A reconstruction of Pearce's economics | p. 107 |
| Environmental economics as a "materials balance model" | p. 108 |
| An Ecological Input-Output Analysis | p. 108 |
| A Materials Balance Model | p. 110 |
| Conclusion | p. 112 |
| Environmental economics as a kind of welfare economics | p. 112 |
| A Neo-Classical Approach | p. 113 |
| Environmental Economics in the Service of "Sustainable Development" | p. 116 |
| Conclusion | p. 121 |
| Environmental politics | p. 122 |
| The Ambiguity of the Concept "Allocative Efficiency" | p. 122 |
| Economic Institutions as a Matter of Economic Calculations | p. 124 |
| Adding Economic Institutions: Two Problems of "Sustainability" | p. 126 |
| Conclusion | p. 128 |
| Conclusion | p. 129 |
| The nature of Pearce's economics | p. 131 |
| Non-neutral objectivity | p. 131 |
| Objectivity as Practically Valid Non-Neutrality | p. 132 |
| Objectivity as Non-Neutral Empirical Validity | p. 133 |
| Prescription rather than non-neutral description | p. 137 |
| Prediction rather than explanation | p. 140 |
| Partiality | p. 141 |
| Conclusion | p. 144 |
| A reconstruction of Bromley's economics | p. 147 |
| An institutional approach | p. 148 |
| Economic institutions | p. 150 |
| The Economic Sphere | p. 150 |
| Property | p. 152 |
| Property Rights | p. 152 |
| Property Regimes | p. 154 |
| Conclusion | p. 157 |
| The relationship between an economy and its ecological environment | p. 158 |
| Nominal versus Real Boundaries | p. 159 |
| Externalities | p. 160 |
| Conclusion | p. 165 |
| The economic and the political sphere | p. 165 |
| Institutional Transactions: Economic or Political Activities | p. 165 |
| The "Rationality" of Institutional Change | p. 167 |
| Sustainability | p. 172 |
| Conclusion | p. 174 |
| Conclusion | p. 175 |
| The nature of Bromley's economics | p. 177 |
| Non-neutral | p. 177 |
| Propagandistic versus Paradigmatic Non-Neutrality | p. 177 |
| A Normative Analysis of Institutional Change | p. 178 |
| Four Motives for Institutional Change | p. 179 |
| Objective | p. 184 |
| Descriptive | p. 187 |
| Explanatory | p. 189 |
| (Im)partial | p. 192 |
| Conclusion | p. 193 |
| Conclusions | p. 197 |
| Norms for an ecologically successful economics | p. 198 |
| The Problem of Sustainability | p. 198 |
| Politics | p. 199 |
| Institutions | p. 200 |
| The Content of an Ecologically Successful Economics | p. 202 |
| The Nature of an Ecologically Successful Economics | p. 203 |
| Mutually testing norms and economic paradigms | p. 205 |
| The Problem of Sustainability | p. 205 |
| Politics | p. 208 |
| The Content of an Ecologically Successful Economics | p. 208 |
| The Nature of an Ecologically Successful Economics | p. 212 |
| Conclusion | p. 215 |
| References | p. 217 |
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