The Convoluted Sustainability of the Neoclassical Discourse

The text argues that the mathematical coldness of the marginalist theory does not resonate with the requirements of Our Common Future. The universal Mengerian menu is incompatible with the diversity of human preferences and at odds with the priorities of

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The Sustainable Development Theory: A Critical Approach, Volume 1 The Discourse of the Founders Ion Pohoaţă · Delia Elena Diaconaşu · Vladimir Mihai Crupenschi

Palgrave Studies in Sustainability, Environment and Macroeconomics

Series Editor Ioana Negru Department of Economics SOAS University of London London, UK

Most macroeconomic theory and policy is orientated towards promoting economic growth without due consideration to natural resources, sustainable development or gender issues. Meanwhile, most economists consider environmental issues predominantly from a microeconomic perspective. This series is a novel and original attempt to bridge these two major gaps and pose questions such as: Is growth and sustainability compatible? Are there limits to growth? What kind of macroeconomic theories and policy are needed to green the economy? Moving beyond the limits of the stock-flow consistent model, the series will contribute to understanding analytical and practical alternatives to the capitalist economy especially under the umbrella term of “degrowth”. It will aim to reflect the diversity of the degrowth literature, opening up conceptual frameworks of economic alternatives—including feminist political ecology—as critical assessments of the capitalist growth economy from an interdisciplinary, pluricultural perspective. The series invites monographs that take critical and holistic views of sustainability by exploring new grounds that bring together progressive political economists, on one hand, and ecological economists, on the other. It brings in.

More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15612

Ion Pohoa¸ta˘ · Delia Elena Diacona¸su · Vladimir Mihai Crupenschi

The Sustainable Development Theory: A Critical Approach, Volume 1 The Discourse of the Founders

Ion Pohoa¸ta˘ Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania

Delia Elena Diacona¸su Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania

Vladimir Mihai Crupenschi Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania

Palgrave Studies in Sustainability, Environment and Macroeconomics ISBN 978-3-030-54846-9 ISBN 978-3-030-54847-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54847-6 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The