Sustainable economic development: perspectives from political economy and economics pluralism
- New York Routledge 2025
- xviii, 264 p.
- Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy .
Table of contents: 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? Is Infrastructure Sustainability the Next Big Thing?
Charalambos Arachovas
13. Cultural Background as a Crucial Factor for Sustainable Development
Pantelis C. Kostis
14. Reducing the Gender Digital Divide amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs
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 brings 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. (https://www.routledge.com/Sustainable-Economic-Development-Perspectives-from-Political-Economy-and-Economics-Pluralism/Meramveliotakis-Manioudis/p/book/9781032393629?srsltid=AfmBOorbx2R3iboZGptZIJH0oA9FEkP7i_ALSVjeoKA0uBWVp3CIqoPR)