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Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism
Drawing on political economy and economic pluralism, this book explores issues in sustainable economic development from a macro perspective.
In contrast to the vast majority of studies on contemporary development problems, which are focused on micro-level theory, method and policy, this volume brings together both heterodox and mainstream perspectives. The international cast of contributors thus bring a pluralistic approach to core contemporary topics including digital transformation, climate change, degrowth and the effects of the pandemic crisis. Methods range from frameworks used to analyse public policy and institutional change, to modes of analyses including historically grounded narratives and conceptualisations of grand theories. Each chapter surveys the origins, development, key features, applications, and frontiers of a particular viewpoint, framework, or mode of analysis.
This book makes a vital contribution to the literature on economic development, sustainable development, capitalism, and sustainability more broadly.
Introduction – Sustainable Economic Development: Setting the Scene
Giorgos Meramveliotakis & Manolis Manioudis
PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
1. The Vagaries and Volatilities of Mainstream Development Evonomics: A Personal Account
Ben Fine
2. Reconsidering the role of economists and economics: Towards an 'institutional' ecological economics
Peter Söderbaum
PART II: HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
3. On the limits of growth in Classical Political Economy
Michel S. Zouboulakis
4. Economic growth and social sustainability. How useful can it be to go back to the research programme of the German historical school?
Vitantonio Gioia
5. Stages of capitalist development and maximum marine plastic pollution and the SDGs
Peter J. Jacques
PART III: DEGROWTH, URBAN ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
6. A Review of the Political Critique to the Idea of Sustainable Development
Sotirios K. Bellos
7. Just Ecological Political Economy: A Radical Anti-Thesis of Environmental and Ecological Economics
Franklin Obeng Odoom
PART IV: GLOBALIZATION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND CRISES
8. Alternative Globalization Dynamics for a more Sustainable Development and Growth Process
Kyriaki I. Kafka
9. Climate Change and Sustainable Development: A Global South Perspective
Ying Chen
PART V: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, INNOVATION AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
10. Towards Industry 6.0 and Techno-centric vs Human-centric Smart Balancing: The Journey from Industry 4.0 towards Industry and Society 5.0 and Beyond
Elias G. Carayannis, Pantelis C. Kostis, Kyriaki I. Kafka & Theodora Valvi
11. The long and co-evolutionary path to green transition: history, technology, innovation and new policy paradigms
Antonios Angelakis & Manolis Manioudis
PART VI: INFRASTRUCTURE, CULTURE AND GENDER
12. Infrastructure Capital and Growth: What can we learn from region-level data?
Charalambos Arachovas
13. Cultural Background as a Crucial Factor for Sustainable Development
Pantelis C. Kostis
14. Reducing the Gender Digital Divide: Inequalities, Feminism and Technology
Nick Drydakis
Biography
Giorgos Meramveliotakis is Assistant Professor of Economic Theory and Policy at the Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus, and Coordinator of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) and MSc in European Politics & Governance programmes.
Manolis Manioudis holds a PhD in Economics (University of Crete Department of Economics). He lives in Athens, where he works as a coordinator of the Department of Economic Development at the Institute of Commerce and Services at the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (INEMY-ESEE).
It is not only the scale of the challenges facing the world that is unprecedented; it is also their increasing interconnectedness that calls for the reaffirmation of the importance of economics pluralism in the study of sustainable economic development. This volume provides valuable political economy insights and perspectives, broadening and deepening the explanatory and interpretive frameworks for analysing various aspects of sustainable development.
Dimitris Milonakis
Professor of Political Economy
University of Crete.
Genuine human development requires a new economics. This book offers ideas for developing economics anew´.
Giorgos Kallis
ICREA professor
ICTA-UAB.
