Environmental economics and ecological became established scientific fields as a result of the growth success environmental movement in 1960s 1970s. Using strong programme sociology knowledge general theory scientific/intellectual movements, this article compares four pairs scholars (two appropriated for these fields' founders during emergence establishment fields). The depicts how their instit...

This survey sketches the broad landscape of the field of transaction costs measurement. It surveys the main research areas concerning transaction costs and offers a taxonomy: monetary and financial economics, Williamsonian transaction cost economics, the transaction sector, non-market transaction costs, environmental and ecological economics, institutions and economic growth, and the economics ...

Grantham Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AZ, United Kingdom; Department of Environmental and Resource Economics, Centre for European Economic Research, 68161 Mannheim, Germany; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, and Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193...

Abstract This study proposes an environmental identity economics theory that can improve our understanding of pro-environmental behaviour. We test the potential by analysing farmers’ decisions to invest in renewable energy production using a hybrid choice model. Our findings illustrate farmers with strong require less financial incentive invest. Furthermore, lower compensation is found be suffi...