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| Author: | Bleischwitz, R. |
| Title: | Rethinking productivity: why has productivity focussed on labour instead of natural resources? |
| Journal: | Environmental and Resource Economics
2001 : MAY, VOL. 19:1, p. 23-36 |
| Index terms: | Productivity Natural resources Resource management Econometric models |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The contribution of natural resources and ecosystems to economic processes still remains underassessed by market evaluation and productivity analysis. Following the historical lines of the classical productivity debate ranging from the French Physiocrats to early neoclassical growth theories, the productivity concept underwent a gradual transformation frpm its previous understanding based on natural resources and other environmental factors to its contemporary narrow notion. This paper claims that the course of the classical debate has shaped the scope of predominant contemporary analysis. Material flow analysis provides a useful step for widening the measurement and notion of productivity. |
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