1st Edition
Crisis System A critical realist and environmental critique of economics and the economy
1. Introduction
Petter Næss and Leigh Price
2. Ideology and Economics
Tony Lawson
3. The Economics of Research – the Contribution of Critical Realism
David Tyfield
4. Inaccurate and biased: cost-benefit analyses of transport infrastructure projects
Petter Næss
5. Arguments for and against economic growth
Jin Xue
6. The symptomatology of crises: some critical realist reflections
Bob Jessop
7. Using retroduction to address wicked problems
Leigh Price
8. Housing standards, environmental sustainability and social welfare
Petter Næss and Jin Xue
9. Systemic issues within the crisis of global capitalism – the case of land and food
Robert Biel
10. The illusion of green capitalism
Petter Næss
11. China at the crossroad: ecological modernization or ecosocialism?
Jin Xue
12. Making the Critique of Capitalism Fit for the Present Crisis
Arne Johan Vetlesen
Biography
Petter Næss is Professor of Planning in Urban Regions at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.
Leigh Price is Research Associate at Rhodes University, South Africa, and visiting Research Associate at University College London, UK.
