Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism

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

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 is Assistant Professor of Economic History and History of Economic Thought at the Department of Economics, University of Patras. He is 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.