Ecological economics is concerned with understanding the relationship of humanity's household to earth's household. Its orientation has been to nurture methodological pluralism. This expansive project has yet to include in its toolbox what we label–dialectics and evolutionary materialism. This approach and methodology for understanding complex economic systems (the foundation of humanity's household); their emergence, structure, dynamic, and the complex relationship they establish between humans and earth can expand the breadth of methodological pluralism. Ecological economics has embraced a more limited ontological and epistemological approach stressing obvious material connections and the centrality of human agency. A more expansive view of social metabolism in relation to earth and the processes of change have been thwarted by the theoretical choice to avoid confronting determinism and to elevate the role of human agency in altering the massive economic system.

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辩证法和进化唯物主义：扩大生态经济学的方法论多元主义


生态经济学关注的是理解人类家庭与地球家庭的关系。它的方向是培养方法论的多元主义。这个庞大的项目还没有在其工具箱中包括我们所说的辩证法和进化唯物主义。这种理解复杂经济系统（人类家庭的基础）的方法和方法;它们的出现、结构、动态以及它们在人类和地球之间建立的复杂关系可以扩大方法论多元主义的广度。生态经济学采用了一种更有限的本体论和认识论方法，强调明显的物质联系和人类能动性的中心地位。关于社会新陈代谢与地球和变化过程的关系的更广阔的观点，已经被避免面对决定论和提升人类能动性在改变庞大经济体系中的作用的理论选择所挫败。