Realizing an Alternative Political Economy of Sustainability

The Contributions of Radical Ecology and Heterodox Economics
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-46927-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability – both as a concept and as a political objective. To that end, this book provides a critical overview of the development of alternative perspectives on the economics of sustainability, highlighting the presence of various strands of heterodox economics and radical ecology, and arguing that greater engagement between these schools of thought is required to help formulate viable alternatives to the prevailing neoliberal ideology.

The chapters in Part One of this volume “Ecofeminism, Social Ecological Economics, Bioeconomy, Steady State” present a series of concrete policy proposals for building socially-just, sustainable socio-economic processes. Each chapter utilizes the acumen of a given heterodox tradition to formulate policy reforms to secure this objective. In Part Two “Heterodox Macroeconomics and Sustainability” the contributors make the case for more radical forms of socio-economic transformation, particularly emphasizing community, local and regional level initiatives for change. The final part “Circular Economy, Civil Economy and Other Heterodox Contributions” reflects on the potential strategic political-economic contribution of heterodox economics to building more sustainable and just socio-economic practices in a broader sense. These chapters demonstrate that heterodox economics and radical ecology can productively contribute to realizing sustainability in areas such as economic pedagogy, through working in conjunction with other social justice movements, and by challenging extant neoliberal ideologies of sustainability. They also deliberate on some of the institutional and epistemological challenges that confront heterodox practitioners seeking to make such an impact.

This volume is essential reading for anyone concerned with a viable alternative conception of the economy and sustainability, including readers from all schools of heterodox economics and radical ecology, and people and organizations involved in various ways in building an alternative political economy of sustainability.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hermann, Arturo

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Ecofeminism, Social Ecological Economics, Bioeconomics, Steady State 1. Toward Ecofeminist Radical Political Economy in Action: Strategies for Sustainable Societal Transformations 2. Challenging the Economic Mainstreaming of Sustainability and Social-Ecological Crises  3. Hermans Daly’s Political Economy for Sustainability: The Steady-State and Other Policies for Ending Uneconomic Growth 4. The Bioeconomics of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: a new epistemological foundation for economic science 5. Bioeconomics and the approach to environmental sustainability. The ecological transition:a new “economic myth”? Part II: Heterodox Macroeconomics and Sustainability 6. Principles of post-Keynesian Ecological Economics 7. Green Finance 8. A Kaleckian-Schumpeterian Synthesis to Secure Sustainability 9. Economic Policy and Sustainability in a Monetary Economy: A Monetary Theory of Production Approach  10. The social role of central banking in promoting an equitable and sustainable society 11. Step by radical step: the macroeconomics of a degrowth transition Part III: Circular Economy, Civil Economy and Other Heterodox Contributions 12. Shifting to circular economy principles that could counter environmental changes and reduce inequalities 13. Circular Economy and Philosophy of Economics  14. From linear to circular model ESG criteria, EU policies and the new paradigm of civil economy 15. Radical Ecology and Original Institutional Economics

Über Autor(innen)

Arturo Hermann is a “Senior researcher” (“Primo ricercatore”) in economics at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Rome, Italy.