Publication Date:
2022-02-18
Description:
This article presents an account of how deeply entrenched the neoclassical economic paradigm with its homo economicus and unlimited growth ideals has become in our societies and why this inhibits solutions for sustainable futures. Drawing on political economists like Karl Polanyi and Antonio Gramsci it also highlights how the current questioning of this paradigm and thus informed mindsets provides a renewed window of opportunity for a Great Transformation towards more sustainable futures. It reviews Transition Towns, Beyond GDP and Common Good Economies as examples of movements that lead the way in putting a new paradigm into practice.
Keywords:
ddc:300
Repository Name:
Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
Language:
English
Type:
bookpart
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doc-type:bookPart
Format:
application/pdf
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