Historical Epistemology of Ecological Economics: Essays on the Styles of Economic Reasoning - Paperback

by Alberto Fragio (Author)

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology. Using the field of ecological economics as an anchor point, the author reflects on the styles of reasoning in economics with a view towards understanding the nature of disagreement that stems from a failure of communication between rival approaches in economics. A thorough inquiry into issues related to identity, coherence, pluralism, and reception, this volume will appeal to researchers and students interested in history of economic thought, ecological economics, and philosophy of the sciences.

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This volume uses historical epistemology to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology. Using the field of ecological economics as an anchor point, the author reflects on the styles of reasoning in economics with a view towards understanding the nature of disagreement that stems from a failure of communication between rival approaches in economics. A thorough inquiry into issues related to identity, coherence, pluralism, and reception, this volume will appeal to researchers and students interested in history of economic thought, ecological economics, and philosophy of the sciences.

Author Biography

Alberto Fragio is full professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa, Mexico City. He earned his PhD in Philosophy (2007) from the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain), and in Cultural Sciences (2011) from Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi di Modena (Italy). He was holder of a Swiss Government Scholarship at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Chair for Science Studies (Switzerland), and a Gerda Henkel Stiftung postdoctoral fellowship (Marie Curie Fellowship - M4HUMAN programme) at the Institut für Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung der Universität zu Lübeck(Germany). He has been Visiting Scholar in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University (USA), in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Germany), or the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC (Spain), among other institutions. He is a member of the Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (ZKFL Lübeck), and the research group on "Historical Epistemology and History of Experience" at Spanish National Research Council CSIC (Madrid).