Growth, environment, and culture-encompassing competing ideologies in one 'new growth' model

摘要

The debate about growth and the environment is fragmented due to ideological differences. Mainstream neoclassi- cal and environmental economists tend to ignore deeper worries about long-term growth and nature. I show how competing positions can be interpreted within a single unifying framework. The interpretative tool is cultural theory, whereas the framework is a schumpeterian growth model including environmentally oriented research in addition to 'ordinary' research. The two diagonals of cultural theory belong to economists and skeptics, respectively.