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The multidisciplinary edited book Visions and Strategies for a Sustainable Economy: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives provides a thorough examination - at the theoretical and, especially, policy levels - of a number of key topics related to a sustainable economy and a better society. With important contributions by distinguished academics, the book presents alternative views, provides an assessment of contemporary realities in an era of ecological emergency, and offers visions, strategies, and realistic policies towards a better economy and society while paying special attention to a "green new deal" for different areas.
List of contents
Part I: Sustainability and Development Policies.- Chapter 1: Environmental Sustainability in the Ancient World: Frugality and Sufficiency as Strategies of Aristocratic Self-justification.- Chapter 2: Linking the Developmental State to Green Economic Growth.- Chapter 3: Environmental Sustainability and Green Industrial Strategy.- Part II: Sustainability and Economic Policies.- Chapter 4: Proper Future Economic Policies.- Chapter 5: Monetary Policy Support for A Green New Deal.- Chapter 6: "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" Revisited. -Chapter 7: Costing the Green New Deal in the United States: The Modern Money Theory Approach.- Part III: Sustainability and Social Policies.- Chapter 8: Sustainability and Social Policy Nexus. Chapter 9: Moving Towards a Sustainable Economy - A Social Liberal View.- Chapter 10: Green New Deal Policies and the Decarbonisation Challenge.- Part IV: Sustainability and Area Studies.- Chapter 11: Building Sustainable Communities in the Global South: The Communitarian Revolutionary Subject.- Chapter 12: Linking Caribbean Development Options to Green and Blue Economic Growth: Key Notions and Policy Implications.- Chapter 13: China's Ecological Civilization: From Contradiction to Synthesis.
About the author
Nikolaos Karagiannis is Full Professor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina (USA); invited visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (UK); and the co-editor of American Review of Political Economy. He has published extensively in the areas of economic development, public sector economics, and macroeconomic policy analysis. Karagiannis is particularly interested in developmental state theory and policy. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of 22 books and has published over 160 papers as refereed journal articles, book chapters, and op-eds.
John E. King is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University and Honorary Professor at Federation University Australia. His principal research interests are in the history of heterodox economic thought, especially Marxian political economy and post-Keynesian economics. King has published 115 papers in refereed journals and over 96 book chapters, and is the author, co-author, or editor of 32books. Recent publications include
A History of American Economic Thought (2018; with Samuel Barbour and James Cicarelli),
A Modern Guide to State Intervention (2019; with Nikolaos Karagiannis), and
The Alternative Austrian Economics (2019), dealing with socialist economic thought in Austria between 1900 and the present day.
