Ecologist utopia facing reality: Malthus against Prigogine
https://doi.org/10.1134/S2304487X21050035
Abstract
The world economy is experiencing the turbulence of the end of a long wave of development that precedes its entry into the new cycle, on which the 21st century will leave its mark. Two opposite economic logics are proposed to solve the challenges faced by the Earth: The first one is the conventional one based on the management of scarcity which corresponds to Malthusian ecologists. The second, the management of abundance, is a very non-academic answer with the Prigogine’s thermodynamical approach of economics, and the inclusion of knowledge in the production function. The proof of the analogy between Shannon’s definition of entropy and the Clausius’s one opens the way to a new vision of Economy, abandoning the so-called politicaly correct approach of shortage management for the benefit of an Economy of abundance. The apply of Prigogine’s concept of thermodynamic open system allows to break the deadlock of the green neo-Malthusianism ideology which is only able to make the poor even poorer and more numerous and to prophesy the end of the world.
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Maïsseu A. Ecologist utopia facing reality: Malthus against Prigogine. Vestnik natsional'nogo issledovatel'skogo yadernogo universiteta "MIFI". 2021;10(5):459-476. https://doi.org/10.1134/S2304487X21050035
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