Sustainable Economic Alternatives - Emerging Eco-Social Enterprises for Non-Growth Economies

Building on empirical research and relevant literature, this book describes and analyzes sustainable economic alternatives and looks at their role in a world where the old paradigms of aggregate economic growth, free trade and perfectly competitive markets are fast losing their appeal. What do the eco-social enterprises do? How do they differ from the mainstream? What are the motivations and implications of their organisational and governance structures? How are they conceptualised from different ideological and geopolitical perspectives? This book addresses these questions and others about these new approaches to production, trading, consumption and finance.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Changing paradigms: the assumptions behind this book 2. What is "the economy"? Broadening the mainstream perspective 3. Heterodox thinking about eco-social enterprise: a review 4. A wide spectrum: typologies of eco-social enterprise 5. Eco-social enterprises in non-growth economies 6. Strengthening eco-social enterprises: survival strategies 7. Ambiguities, problems and topics for further research Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Johanisova, Nadia (Masaryk University Johanisova, Johanisova Nadia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.02.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138943896
• ISBN: 978-1-138-94389-6
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics; Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Sustainability, Business & Economics / General, Economics, Business and Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Environmental Economics, Political Economy