Raubwirtschaft

He goes on to quote Toynbee on Rome: The economy of the Empire was basically a Raubwirtschaft or plunder economy based on looting existing resources rather than producing anything new.

Boing Boing 2009

These movements complain against disproportionate pollution (at local and global levels, including claims for repayment of the “carbon debt”), they complaint against waste exports from North to South (e.g. the “Clemenceau” and so many other ships to be dismantled in the beaches of Alang in Gujarat, or electronic waste), they complain against biopiracy, and also against Raubwirtschaft, i.e. ecologically unequal exchange, and the destruction of nature and human livelihoods at the “commodity frontiers”.

Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009