Economics, nature and agiculture in the work of spanish economists: Some ecological-economic suggestions (1940-1970)

Abstract

In Spain, the main reflections about the relationship between economy and nature was produced since end of the seventies. Despite this circumstance, in the second third of the 20th century we can find interesting environmentaleconomic suggestions in some orthodox economists (Perpiñá i Grau, Torres, Valentín Andrés Álvarez). Nevertheless, neither these economists nor the conventional approach did not go into these contributions in any depth. In this article we highlight those suggestions, but we also point out on the simultaneous influence that an academic event had in the understanding of the relationship between economy and nature in Spain since the middle of the forties: the substitution of economic structure for economic geography as subject in the degree of Economics.