Definitions

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  • noun The study of the dynamics of living resources using economic models.
  • noun The study of economic systems, applying the laws of thermodynamics.

Etymologies

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bio- +‎ economics

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Examples

  • Tullock has made seminal contributions in many different areas: constitutional political economy, voting, rent-seeking, bureaucracy, and even bioeconomics.

    The Austrian Economists: 2007

  • The result of our brainwashing is obvious; the bioeconomics of it is clear: one precious life of the above-mentioned Chosen People equals one hundred, three hundred or a thousand brown or black "foreigners".

    3quarksdaily 2009

  • The result of our brainwashing is obvious; the bioeconomics of it is clear: one precious life of the above-mentioned Chosen People equals one hundred, three hundred or a thousand brown or black "foreigners".

    3quarksdaily 2009

  • Sociobiology is becoming a minor branch of bioeconomics.

    American Scientist Online 2009

  • Short version of the book: Synergy is cool again, synergy and self-organization complement each other and are distinct; bioeconomics is hugely important and supports the premise that the whole is larger than the sum of the parts and that interactions and exchanges can and should be done for the whole, "beyond selfishness," cybernetics rules, information is the space between, and ethics is both a form of cybernetics and a cultural adaptation that helps the whole evolve and persist.

    Robert David Steele: Infinite Wealth for All Robert David Steele 2010

  • Short version of the book: Synergy is cool again, synergy and self-organization complement each other and are distinct; bioeconomics is hugely important and supports the premise that the whole is larger than the sum of the parts and that interactions and exchanges can and should be done for the whole, "beyond selfishness," cybernetics rules, information is the space between, and ethics is both a form of cybernetics and a cultural adaptation that helps the whole evolve and persist.

    Robert David Steele: Infinite Wealth for All Robert David Steele 2010

  • Soddy’s economic writings were largely ignored in his time, but would later be applied to the development of bioeconomics and ecological economics in the late 20th century.

    Technocracy James Killus 2008

  • This is why in bioeconomics we must emphasize that every Cadillac or every Zim – let alone any instrument of war – means fewer plowshares for some future generations, and implicitly, fewer future human beings, too. [

    Energy and economic myths (historical) Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 2007

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