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We begin by looking at the physical steps needed for a plate of pasta Bolognese to appear on your table. This serves as a template for the way the economy is grounded in the physical world. We then consider what distinguishes the economic perspective on humans’ use of nature from those of other disciplines, and then what distinguishes macroeconomics from its cousin microeconomics.
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Seeley, K. (2017). The Economy in the World. In: Macroeconomics in Ecological Context. Studies in Ecological Economics, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51757-5_1
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