TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Bleischwitz, Raimund
T1  - Rethinking productivity : why has productivity focussed on labour instead of natural resources? ; Notes on the relevance of a classical debate
N2  - The contribution of natural resources and ecosystems to economic processes still remains under-assessed by market evaluation and productivity analysis. Following the historical lines of the classical productivity debate ranging from the French Physiocrats to early neoclassical growth theories, the productivity concept underwent a gradual transformation from its previous understanding based on natural resources and other environmental factors to its contemporary narrow notion. This paper claims that the course of the classical debate has shaped the scope of predominant contemporary analysis. Except for some very recent findings, multifactor productivity largely focusses on a two-factor model. Material Flow Analysis (MFA) provides a useful step for widening the measurement and notion of productivity.
T2  - Environmental and resource economics
VL  - 19
Y1  - 2001
UN  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-12122
U6  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1011106527578
DO  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1011106527578
IS  - 1
SP  - 23
EP  - 36
ER  -