Theories and concepts

  • Economic discourse and disciplines, compared, critiqued and contrasted in order to position Green Economics - including the following subjects
  • Environmental economics
  • Welfare economics
  • Development economics
  • Fairtrade
  • Aid
  • Freedom
  • Costing resources
  • Neo classical
  • Neo Marxist
  • Neo colonial
  • Eco socialism
  • Eco feminism and women’s economics
  • Patriarchy and accumulation: problems in resource allocation
  • Foreign direct investment
  • Trickle down theories
  • Game theory
  • New theories of human needs hierarchy vs. supply and demand
  • Human happiness
  • Implementation problems and issues in government

Structural Questions - International Institutions

  • Bretton Woods
  • EU
  • UN
  • IMF
  • World Bank
  • WTO
  • GATTS
  • Democracy and privatisation
  • Buying politics - war, the arms trade, oil and the war on terrorism
  • Trading blocks
  • New protectionism
  • International governance
  • Tobin tax
  • Off shoring
  • Outsourcing
  • Multinationals and tariff barriers

New initiatives and cases, experience and applications

  • Green solutions
  • Eco taxes
  • Resource management
  • New economic indicators
  • Zero waste
  • Site here to sell here
  • Reuse
  • Recycle, repair
  • Quality of life and consumerism
  • Co-ops
  • Land value issues
  • Resource valuation
  • New paradigms of the economy: nature, colonies, biosphere, non human species, women minorities
  • Questions of 10,000 years of agriculture and patriarchy dominating the economy
  • Post agricultural social and economic requirements and organisation
  • Planning to reduce surplus and not to harness it for power over others
  • Inclusive, participatory practices
  • Polluter pays

Critique of corporate activity

  • Triple bottom line
  • Stakeholder perspectives
  • Roles and activity within multinationals
  • Consumerism
  • Procurement
  • Processes of globalisation at a practical level
  • Corporate governance
  • Environmental management as an industry
  • Eco-labelling
  • Limiting the power of the multinationals
  • Shareholding as a means of gaining influence on the board
  • Grass roots activism
  • Civil society and attitudes to acceptable economic activity

Social justice in the economy

  • Indigenous rights
  • Less developed countries
  • Subsistence economies
  • Purchasing power parity
  • Balance of rich and poor in different societies
  • Poverty and its effects
  • Poverty and its definitions
  • Quality of life indicators
  • Tools for ensuring that policies involve justice
  • Environmental justice and consequences of a lack of it