Economics and sustainability: ecological economics in perspective

Abstract

This paper is divided into three parts: the first reviews how current economic science was consolidated in the isolated world of exchange values, giving a hard time to economists who now seek to think about the environment; the second concerns the ecological or environmental economy, already established in the academic world, but that has failed greening ordinary economy; and finally the third part concludes pointing out the main "taboo" topics that remain ignored in this area, blocking the path to a real ecologcl reconversion of ordinary economy.