An important line of scholarship concludes that stemming the biodiversity crisis requires widespread nonanthropocentric modes of action and decision-making. In this regard, knowing what would even constitute a nonanthropocentric economic decision-making framework is hobbled by failing to recognize a conflation in the taxonomy of capital as supposed by traditional (anthropocentric) economics. We explain how natural capital (a basic category in anthropocentric economies) conflates natural capital without intrinsic value and natural capital with intrinsic value. Recognizing this conflation allowed us to identify instances of quantitative analyses that have elements of nonanthropocentrism but that seem not to have been previously recognized as such. We also explore inescapable consequences of recognizing this conflation, including the need to better understand how economic decision-making should take account for interspecies distributive justice and human well-being. That second need augments independent calls by economists and policy experts to take better account of human well-being.

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最低限度的非人类中心经济学：它是什么，它是否必要，它能否避免生物多样性危机？

一项重要的学术研究得出结论，遏制生物多样性危机需要广泛的非以人类为中心的行动和决策模式。在这方面，由于未能认识到传统（以人类为中心的）经济学所假设的资本分类学中的混杂，因此很难知道什么会构成一个非以人类为中心的经济决策框架。我们解释了自然资本（人类中心经济中的一个基本类别）如何将没有内在价值的自然资本和具有内在价值的自然资本混为一谈。认识到这种合并使我们能够确定具有非人类中心主义元素但以前似乎没有被认可的定量分析实例。我们还探讨了认识到这种混淆的不可避免的后果，包括需要更好地理解经济决策应如何考虑物种间分配正义和人类福祉。第二个需求增加了经济学家和政策专家的独立呼吁，以更好地考虑人类福祉。