Title: An exit strategy from capitalism's ecological crisis

Authors: Lynne Chester

Addresses: Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia

Abstract: An effective exit strategy from the ecological crisis does not lie within the broad dichotomy of alternative policy prescriptions: those advocating the reform of capitalism using the same mechanisms which have embedded the ecological crisis (e.g., ecological economics, steady-state economics); and, those proposing a new albeit highly unlikely socio-economic system (e.g., ecological Marxism, socialist ecology). A significant shift in our thinking is required to design a strategy directed at the interdependencies between the spheres constituting capitalist social and economic organisation and delivered by a reconceptualised form of state capitalism.

Keywords: economic-environment relation; ecological crisis; energy; mode of regulation; state capitalism.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2017.089331

International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2017 Vol.8 No.4, pp.330 - 340

Received: 13 Sep 2017
Accepted: 16 Sep 2017
Published online: 17 Jan 2018 *

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