This volume presents a critique of the fashionable idea of globalization, where the kind of global economy that is in the process of forming is seen as the highest possible form of economy, and the neoliberal economic orthodoxy on which it rests. Global Neoliberalism locates the incoherence of neoliberal policy in the neoclassical theories of distribution and welfare on which it depends. These in turn are based on faulty assumptions about human nature and so are unable to answer the question; What leads to a good economic outcome?. Alternative egalitarian theories of welfarism from heterodox...

Talk about the social economy and the term The Third Way has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness of the social economy as a restraint on capitalist excesses with some arguing that the third way is but a poor substitute for a welfare state. This book provides an account of real life experience in a social economy. By focusing on new evidence, it analyzes such themes as: the range of academic and policy expectation that have emerged in the developed world; the policies of New Labour in Britain; and...

This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking -- and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines -- could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics tradition, while Michie and Oughton draw explicitly on institutional and evolutionary economics. The various authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. This book draws on...