Crisis System (eBook, PDF)

A critical realist and environmental critique of economics and the economy
Redaktion: Naess, Petter; Price, Leigh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book throws light onto the nature and causes of three different, but strongly interconnected crises in contemporary societies worldwide: an economic crisis, an ecological crisis; and a normative (moral and political) crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134799916
• Artikelnr.: 45260504

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Ideology and Economics
3. The Economics of Research - the Contribution of Critical Realism
4. Inaccurate and biased: cost-benefit analyses of transport infrastructure
projects
5. Arguments for and against economic growth
6. The symptomatology of crises: some critical realist reflections
7. Using retroduction to address wicked problems
8. Housing standards, environmental sustainability and social welfare
9. Systemic issues within the crisis of global capitalism - the case of
land and food
10. The illusion of green capitalism
11. China at the crossroad: ecological modernization or ecosocialism?
12. Making the Critique of Capitalism Fit for the Present Crisis