Dialectics of Emergy in a Social Accounting Matrix

Khan, Haider (2024): Dialectics of Emergy in a Social Accounting Matrix.

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to clarify some crucial links between the important ecological systems concept of Emergy and its physio-social accounting dialectically via a consistent interdependent System of Social Accounting. It is hoped that a brief but historically accurate background and description of Emergy, SAM, SAM-based and Emergy-based dialectically formulated fixed price multiplier models will be helpful to the increasing number of ecological systems researchers who are interested in using SAMs for both FPM and other types of socially and ecologically relevant modeling.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Dialectics of Abstract and Concrete, Emergy, Disequilibrium Dynamics, Dialectical SAM, Dialectical EmSAM, Socio-economic ecological accounting, EmSAM-based modeling
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy

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