Introducing a New Economics: Pluralist, Sustainable and Progressive

Part One: Introduction

1. Introducing Economics with a Judicious Mix of Pluralism, Sustainability and Justice

Part Two: The Territory of Economic Study

2. Knowledge and the Construction of Models

3. Sustainability, Resources and the Environment

4. Power

5. Inequality, Poverty and Disempowerment

Part Three: The Central Issues of Economics

6. Livelihoods and Work

7. The Shifting Definition of Unemployment

8. Money

9. Economic Value

Part Four: Economic Organisation

10. Firms, Industries and Markets

11. Economic Democracy

12. Economic Governance

13. Consumption, Investment and Savings

14. Recessions and Financial Crises: Are They Inevitable?

Part Five: Global Perspectives

15. Political Economy and Development: Global Justice and Global Governance

16. Trade: A Pluralist Approach

17. Contemporary Global Economic and Financial Trends

Part Six: Conclusion

18. Which Way Forward?

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).