Policy responses to economic and financial crises: insights from heterodox economics and psychoanalysis
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Arturo Hermann | In this paper, we address several aspects of the present economic and social crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective. We focus attention on Institutional and Keynesian economics and on the role of public spending and credit creation in... | 8 - 22 |
Pluralism and sustainable development
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Peter Söderbaum | University departments of economics have to move from monism to pluralism in the sense of encouraging competing theoretical perspectives. The tension between monism and pluralism is not limited to economics paradigms but also concerns theor... | 23 - 39 |
Explaining neoclassical economists' pro-growth agenda: does the popular Solow growth model bias economic analysis?
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Hendrik Van den Berg | The Solow model concludes that long-run growth depends on technological progress, which is taken by neoclassical economists as suggesting there are no limits to growth because humanity's capacity to think and expand knowledge is unlimit... | 40 - 62 |
Environmental education in Latvia
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Dzineta Dimante | This paper discusses the development of environmental education and education for sustainable development in Latvia since 1991. The article highlights best practices of environmental education in Latvia, which include curriculum and study m... | 63 - 70 |
Keynes and Hayek betrayed: on the curious stance of Europe's Keynesian and libertarian political economists in the context of the eurozone crisis
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Yanis Varoufakis | Following the Crash of 1929, an epic debate began between liberals, led by Friedrich von Hayek, who believed in capitalism's automatic stabilisers and John Maynard Keynes who did not. Today, in Europe, this debate has taken an interesti... | 71 - 83 |
Entrepreneurship and neoclassical economics: any chance for collaboration?
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Prestin Lewis; Wei Lu; Louis C. Vaccaro | Given that entrepreneurship influences economic growth, this paper questions from a pluralist perspective whether neoclassical economic models comport with entrepreneurship education. This paper's intent is not to develop new economic m... | 84 - 90 |
Two perspectives of time in economics: the neoclassical school (Newtonian) versus the Austrian school (Bergsonian)
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Fu-Lai Tony Yu | This paper has two objectives. Firstly, it compares the concept of time in two economic paradigms, the neoclassical and the Austrian school. Secondly, this paper traces the development of the concept of subjective time in the Austrian Schoo... | 91 - 103 |
Scarcity, capitalism and the promise of economic democracy
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2012.047477 | Costas Panayotakis | This article critically examines scarcity, a foundational concept of neoclassical economics. It argues that class inequalities and the pursuit of profit shape the configurations of scarcity faced by individuals and groups in today's soc... | 104 - 111 |
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