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What is a green capitalism? Insights from the social system theory

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  • Erik Brezovec
  • Stefan Schweiger

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In this paper, it is argued that the economy as a social system is a conditio sine qua non to the environmental observations of the other social systems. Economic code of payment or nonpayment pre‐code environment, observed from the other social systems (for example, politics and science). By using this approach, the paper discusses the ways in which capitalism as an economic program is interpreted by other systems most of the time as the conditio sine qua non for their own autopoiesis regarding ecological challenges. It is debated that green capitalism is a form of a functionally differentiated economic system which is made as a conditio sine qua non for the other systems observation of ecological challenges. In the time dimension, money as a medium of economic system (and payment or nonpayment) comes first, and with it, tries to determine the ways other systems can observe ecology ‐ and it is successful.

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  • Erik Brezovec & Stefan Schweiger, 2025. "What is a green capitalism? Insights from the social system theory," Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 42(2), pages 287-296, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:srbeha:v:42:y:2025:i:2:p:287-296
    DOI: 10.1002/sres.3047
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