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Ecology Deals with inter-relationships between biotic and biotic components. Free competition enable markets to allocate scarce resources among competing wants. Economy is an area where interactions takes place between firms and households.
Ecology Deals with inter-relationships between biotic and biotic components. Free competition enable markets to allocate scarce resources among competing wants. Economy is an area where interactions takes place between firms and households.
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Ecology Deals with inter-relationships between biotic and biotic components. Free competition enable markets to allocate scarce resources among competing wants. Economy is an area where interactions takes place between firms and households.
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• Deals with inter-relationships Deals with interactions between forces of
between biotic and biotic components. supply and of demand. • Its basis is fundamental eco- Its basis is consumer wants and preferences processes and eco-systems. expressed through property rights. • Prime movers -- Solar energy and Prime movers -- individual profit motive and survival and reproduction of Organisms. technology. • Deals with common resources whose Deals with privately owned resources whose prices are difficult to determine. prices are determined in the market. • Leads to production of “Natural Leads to production of “Man-made Capital” Capital” which has a low rate of return which has a higher rate of return in market. in the market. • Allocative efficiency through Free competition enable markets to allocate survival of the fittest and natural scarce resources among competing wants. disturbances. • Tends towards high bio-diversity Tends towards standardization and mass and low energy surplus. production to produce large surpluses.
THE CHARACTER OF ECO-SYSTEM AND ECONOMY.
Eco-system. Economy.
• It is an area where inter-action takes It is an area where interactions takes place
place between species and their between firms and households. environment. • It organizes flows of solar energy It organizes flows of free energy and matter. and materials. • Distribution of energy and matter Distribution of energy and materials between communities and individuals. between firms and households. • Leads to biological productivity. Leads to economic productivity. • Gives rise to food chains and food Gives rise to social organizational webs. hierarchies and institutions. • Waste recycled through positive & Tends to create an open system with negative feed-back loops. accumulation and partial re-cycling. • Species compete for resources, food Individuals compete for resources, food and and space. space. • Species can use a range of resources. Individuals can choose between resources and alternative uses. • Progress being non-linear and Progress through expansion of scale and discontinuous. increase in output. • Progress hampered by loss of Progress hampered by increasing pollution resilience & of absorptive & and damage to eco-processes. regenerative capacities.