The Legacy of K. William Kapp

Gerber, Julien‐François

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“…built on Weber and Polanyi and developed a critique of market valuation that he opposed to substantive economic planning (Gerber, 2016). For him, societal needs cannot find "value-expression" in the formal economy based on market prices; they can only be expressed in the substantive economy of human livelihood and social reproduction in interaction with culture and nature.…”

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In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – MEFA and MuSIASEM

Gerber

Scheidel

2018

Ecological Economics

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In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – MEFA and MuSIASEM

Gerber

Scheidel

2018

Ecological Economics

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“…Kapp explained how capitalist markets structurally socialize costs, in the sense that profits made by private corporations occur with costs that are transferred to society in its complex, particularly to its most vulnerable groups and future generations. Socio-environmental externalities that arise in capitalist modes of production are considered by Kapp, "cost-shifting successes," rather than market failures, as in the neoclassical economics tradition (Gerber, 2016). These social costs that include a wide range of social, ecological and institutional outcomes are produced in the pursuit of private gains.…”

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“…These social costs that include a wide range of social, ecological and institutional outcomes are produced in the pursuit of private gains. Because of asymmetries in power relations these social costs are shifted to the weaker and more vulnerable subjects and often produce conflicts (Gerber, ). Muradian and Martinez‐Alier (, ) building on the concept of cost‐shifting describe how the extractive feature of the political economic history between countries with different degrees of power and development, is structurally based on environmental cost‐shifting , that is, the appropriation of resources, material, and ecological flows.…”

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The neglected costs of water peace

2018

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Referring to the analytical definition of water wars, several scholars have coherently argued against the “water leads to war thesis.” There are four arguments that have contributed to successfully dispel the myths of water wars: (a) interstate cooperation prevails over conflict; (b) development of new technologies increases freshwater availability; (c) the intrinsic characteristics of water as a resource do not justify interstate military intervention; (d) virtual water trade provides the opportunity to circumvent local water scarcity. These arguments converge demonstrating that rather than water wars in the future, water peace will prevail. While we agree with these arguments on the low likelihood of future water wars, we find that hydropolitical theories have generally neglected the fact that the conditions for interstate water peace come with high socio‐environmental costs. In particular, the central idea that virtual water trade resolve issues of local water scarcity and therefore reduces tensions and escalation of violence among different countries does not fully take into account the fact that dynamics of transnational water appropriation have serious socio‐environmental impacts on the virtual water exporting countries. To conceptualize this phenomenon we introduce the notion of “hidden socio‐environmental costs of virtual water transfer,” which is understood as a specific form of environmental cost‐shifting. The empirical support to our reasoning comes from the study of transnational large‐scale land acquisitions which represent an expanding phenomenon central in the contemporary global agrarian transformation. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Rights to Water Human Water > Water Governance

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“…The same happens with climate change, causing perhaps sea level rise in some Pacific islands or in Kuna islands in Panama or in the Sunderbans. More than market failures (a terminology that implies that such externalities could be valued in money terms and internalized into the price system) these are "costshifting successes" (Kapp, 1950;Gerber, 2016) which oftentimes lead to complaints from those bearing them. If such complaints were effective (which is not the rule), some activities could be banned, or, if we accept economic commensuration and reject incommensurability of values (Martinez-Alier et al 1998), "equivalent" eco-compensation mechanisms could be introduced.…”

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Ecological Distribution Conflicts and the Vocabulary of Environmental Justice

Martínez-Alier

2018

Ecology, Economy and Society

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There is a fundamental clash between economy and the environment due to the growing social metabolism of industrial economies. Energy cannot be recycled. Therefore, the energy from the fossil fuels is used only once, and new supplies of coal, oil, and gas must be obtained from the "commodity extraction frontiers". Similarly, materials are recycled only in part, and therefore, even an economy that would not grow would need fresh supplies of iron ore, bauxite, copper, and paper pulp. The industrial economy is entropic. Meanwhile, permanent "funds" such as aquifers, forests, and fisheries are overexploited, the fertility of the soil is jeopardized and biodiversity is depleted. Thus, the changing social metabolism of industrial economies (including waste disposal such as the excessive production of carbon dioxide) gives rise to growing numbers of ecological distribution conflicts that sometimes overlap with other social conflicts on class, ethnicity or indigenous identity, gender, caste, or territorial rights. The term Ecological Distribution Conflicts (EDC) was coined to describe social conflicts born from the unfair access to natural resources and the unjust burdens of pollution. Such conflicts give birth to movements of resistance, to the point that we can speak already of a global movement for Environmental Justice.

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The Legacy of K. William Kapp

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – MEFA and MuSIASEM

In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – MEFA and MuSIASEM

The neglected costs of water peace

Ecological Distribution Conflicts and the Vocabulary of Environmental Justice

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