The foundational economy-as-an-organism assumption of ecological economics: Is it scientifically useful?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107541
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Economy-as-an-organism; Ecological economics; Biological analogies; Structure-mapping; Kleiber's law; Sustainability;All these keywords.
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