Introducing a New Economics: Pluralist, Sustainable and Progressive

Author:   Jack Reardon ,  Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi ,  Molly Scott Cato
Publisher:   Pluto Press
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9780745334882


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   20 October 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics. Students and lecturers alike are rejecting the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterise the mainstream. They demand that the real world should be brought back into the classroom, insisting that this is the only way to confront the current crisis. With a firm commitment to theoretical, methodological and disciplinary pluralism, the renowned authors of this book challenge the current hegemony head-on. This unique textbook reflects a new ethos of economics education, highlighting sustainability and justice in its discussion of work, employment, power, capital, markets, money and debt. This volume is a work of progressive, heterodox economics that will set the standard for years to come.

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Author:   Jack Reardon ,  Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi ,  Molly Scott Cato
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Weight:   0.593kg
ISBN:  

9780745334882


ISBN 10:   0745334881
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   20 October 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Boxes, Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introducing Economics with a Judicious Mix of Pluralism, Sustainability and Justice 2. Knowledge and the Construction of Economic Models 3. Sustainability, Resources and the Environment 4. Power and the Distribution of Resources 5. Inequality, Poverty and Disempowerment 6. Livelihoods and Work 7. Unemployment and Employment 8. Money 9. Economic Value 10. Firms, Industries and Markets 11. Economic Democracy 12. Economic Governance 13. Consumption, Investment and Savings 14. Recessions and Financial Crises 15. Justice, Political Economy, Global Development and Governance 16. Trade, Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments 17. Contemporary Global Economic and Financial Trends 18. Which Way Forward? Bibliography Subject Index Author Index

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'The only economics text that can help students make sense of today's world of ongoing economic and ecological crises' -- Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics 'There will be an increasing demand for books like this' -- Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level


The news today is dominated by inter-related economic and ecological crises, and economic theory should enable you to better understand both. Conventional economic textbooks take far too narrow an approach to help here. Reardon, Madi and Cato's text is the exception that embeds economics in society and ecology and enables these complex interacting problems to be properly appreciated. -- Professor Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics


The only economics text that can help students make sense of today's world of ongoing economic and ecological crises -- Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics


Author Information

Jack Reardon is founding editor of the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education and author of Introducing a New Economics (Pluto Press, 2017) and The Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education (Routledge, 2009). He teaches economics at the School of Business at Hamline University in Minnesota. Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi is a retired Professor at the Instituto de Economia, State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil. She is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Pluralism and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Economics. She is co-author of Introducing a New Economics (Pluto, 2017). Molly Scott Cato is Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University and is a Green Party Member of the European Parliament for the South West England electoral region. She is author of The Bioregional Economy (Routledge, 2012) and co-author of Introducing a New Economics (Pluto, 2017).

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