The Sustainable Development Theory : A Critical Approach, Volume 1 : The Discourse of the Founders /: A Critical Approach, Volume 1 : The Discourse of the Founders. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ion Pohoață, Delia Elena Diaconaşu, Vladimir Mihai Crupenschi.
• Authors: Pohoață, Ion; Diaconaşu, Delia Elena; Crupenschi, Vladimir Mihai
• Contents: Introduction Chapter I: The avatars of sustainability: A necessary prolegomenon I.1. Why is it important to look back to the founders? I.2. Sustainable development: everything and nothing I.3. How do we understand the Brundtland Report? I.4. What is sustainability? The sustainability-durability-resilience kit. Chapter II: Classical insights in support of sustainability II.1. Work division and human cooperation – fundamental determinants II.2. Social harmony in an economically stratified world. II.3. The institutionalism of economic order at the classics: II.3.1. Job description for the invisible hand II.3.2. Informal institutions of an open economy: money, market, and property. II.4. Work, accumulation and profit in the preface to the economy of happiness. The exception of the happy abstinence of J.S. Mill II.5. Competition in the free market and the origin of bubble-free GDP. II.6. Does economic geography matter? Ricardo and Malthus: the physical limits of development II.7. Moral responsibility in Adam Smith's language Conclusion: An Adamist economy: a sustainable vision. Chapter III: How sustainable are the neoclassics? III.1. Sustainability does not agree with:1.1. Homo economicus rationalis and his environmental void1.2. The supply and demand pendulum with limitless resources: A macro economy for an ideal world. III.2. Fulcrums: 2.1. Pareto or what each generation deserves 2.2. Two sentences from Walras: 2.2.1. There are no ideal sustainability models 2.2.2. Economic efficiency is nothing if it is not social as well 2.3. Drifts towards environment sustainability: A. Marshall, A.C. Pigou Conclusion: Neoclassical macroeconomics: lacking sustainability Chapter IV: The social strain: reversed causalities and the risk of weakening the lesson on sustainability IV.1. When social peace undermines the logic of sustainability IV.2. The anti-social heresy of anti-economism IV.3. Reassigning the development paradigm in the area of distributive justice IV.3.1. Distribution before production: The workplace promise IV.3.2. Pikettism or the pathos of quantitative levelling IV.4. Market social economy of sustainability Conclusions: Redistributive justice: a Trojan horse of unsustainability Chapter V: Founder benchmarks in environmental economics V.1. Whose land is the 'mother of wealth'? What means the physiocracy today? V.2. Why is the classical Marxist preoccupied with pollution and resource exhaustion? V.3. The reasonable pessimism of Ricardo and Malthus V.4. Marshall and Pigou: The pollutant has to pay. Conclusions: The environment as an implicit preoccupation of economic growth Chapter VI: Decrease – a logical inadequacy VI.1. Between hypocrisy and law-like necessity VI.2. Is Mill a predecessor of decrease? VI.3. The seductive logic of decrease: Nicolae Georgescu-Roegen VI.4. Happiness through decreasing VI.5. Towards a new consumption dialectic Chapter VII: Validation of the classics: Long term sustainability VII.1. Schumpeter, Kuznets, Davos. A new face of 'creative destruction' VII.2. Evidence of classical lesson confirmation VII.2.1. Development via workshop instead of commercial company VII.2.2. Demand or offer – a false problem VII.2.3. Ricardo, Marx vs Menger vs. Keynes or 'what does the state do with our money?' VII.2.4. Deflation, entrepreneurship and sustainability Conclusion: In a long term we are not all dead Chapter VIII: New opportunities for sustainability in a globalised world VIII.1. What does emergent sustainability rely on? VIII.2. Commitment to future generations in the context of mass migration VIII.3. Nationalism and sustainability VIII.4. Moral debt and the colours of globalisation Conclusion: What it means to be sustainable in the 21st century.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Subjects: Economics; Management science; Environmental economics; Macroeconomics; Economic geography; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Macroeconomics; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Science -- Environmental Science; Macroeconomics; Economic geography; The environment; Business & Economics -- Economics -- General; Environmental economics; Environmental sciences--Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030548476
• Related ISBNs: 9783030548469
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