Nature as adversary: the rise of modern economic conceptions of nature

Gammon, Earl (2010) Nature as adversary: the rise of modern economic conceptions of nature. Economy and Society, 39 (2). pp. 218-246. ISSN 1469-5766

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Abstract

This article problematizes the reliance of ecological economics on neo-classical economic analysis by revealing an adversarial conception of nature in modern economic ontology. It traces the rise in post-classical economics of this adversarial conception, which superseded the idea of a natural moral economy in classical political economy. The origins of this transformation in the conception of nature are located in the breakdown of the long-standing project of natural theology in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century, precipitated by the geological controversies of the 1820s and 1830s.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Political, Social and International Studies (former - to 2014)
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:58
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2025 01:55
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10117
DOI:	10.1080/03085141003620154

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