Beyond ecological economics and development: critical reflections on the thought of manfred max-neef

Table of contents:
1. Introduction

2. Short biography of Manfred Max-Neef

PART I: Human needs and well-being

3. On the contributions of Max-Neef et al. to the theory of human needs. Julio Boltvinik

4. Understanding Max-Neef’s model of human needs as a practical toolkit for supporting development work and societal transitions. Des Gasper

5. A New Development Paradigm Based on Happiness and Well-being: Max-Neef’s Contributions for Building a Better World. Wenceslao Unanue

6. The Human Scale Development approach: is ‘spirituality’ a fundamental human need? Felix Fuders

7. Addressing fundamental human needs: exploring the Human Scale Development proposal for governance and policymaking. María del Valle Barrera & Patricio Belloy

PART II: Development, growth and sustainability

8. Overcoming the development discourse: Max-Neef and economic growth. Antonio Elizalde Hevia

9. How Human Scale Development can help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 Agenda. Ivonne Cruz

10. Climate change and planetary boundaries: an overview from the biocentric perspective of Max-Neef. Clara Olmedo, Iñaki Ceberio de León & Yerko Castillo Ávalos

11. Demand-side, socio-cultural and systemic solutions: the contributions of Max-Neef’s work for climate change and sustainability. Lina Brand-Correa

12. Human Scale Sustainable Development: where Max-Neef’s Fundamental Human Needs meet Sustainability. Gibrán Vita

13. Economic growth and well-being: examining Max-Neef's ‘Threshold Hypothesis’. Luis Valenzuela-Rivera

PART III: Methodology of economics

14. The Thinking of Manfred Max-Neef and the Challenge to Neoclassic Economics and Policy Orthodoxy. Andrés Solimano

15. The Gustibulus est Disputandum: building a bridge between mainstream economics and Max-Neef’s theory of fundamental needs. Roberto Pastén

16. Manfred Max-Neef and heterodox economics: influences, and links with Piero Sraffa. Jean Pierre Doussoulin & Yoann Verger

17. The Methodology of Barefoot Economics. Patrick Kletzka

18. Max-Neef’s complete biography

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The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef, was a leading thinker on this dynamic, and this book provides both an introduction to and analysis of his work and ideas. Arranged in three main sections – “Human needs and wellbeing”, “Development, growth and sustainability”, and “Methodology of economics” – the chapters in this book contribute to on-going debates on issues as important as human development, the limits of economic growth, deep ecology, sustainable consumption, entrepreneurship, climate change, interdisciplinarity, and the methodology and practice of economics. The contributors to this volume provide a broad range of different critical perspectives on these issues, and the chapters are arranged in dialogue with each other to provide the reader with a rounded view of the legacy of Max-Neef. This book is vital reading for all those interested in ecological economics, environmental economics, development economics, methodology and philosophy of economics, and heterodox economics.

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