Jan Otto Andersson

Behovet av radikal samhällsanalys och ideologikritik har sällan varit större än nu, drygt femtio år efter att tidskriften Häften för kritiska studier först såg dagens ljus. I boken diskuteras, i tidskriftens anda, aktuella trender i vår tids kapitalism. Är USA-imperialismen nere för räkning? Innebär den digitala plattformsekonomin en fjärde industriell revolution? Varför kan traditionell nationalekonomi inte förklara samhällsekonomins omvandling? Hur ska man analysera nyliberaliseringen av europeisk socialdemokrati? Och hur har feminismen utvecklats? Elva författare i tio kritiska studier söker svar och ger sin syn på utvecklingen: Lennart Erixon, Ante Farm, Göran Fredriksson Humlesjö, Anders Gullberg, Jan Otto Andersson, Yvonne Hirdman, Gabrielle Meagher, Lars Pålsson Syll, Magnus Ryner, Marta Szebehely och Stefan de Vylder. Fyra av dessa är även redaktörer till boken: Lennart Erixon, Ante Farm, Göran Fredriksson Humlesjö och Anders Gullberg. Som redaktör medverkar också Lars Ekdahl.

Elements of Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of ecological economics, an interdisciplinary project trying to give answers to the problems related to the overexploitation of the earth’s resources today. These include the problems of global warming (the greenhouse effect) and the overuse of the seas (e.g. overfishing). The book also gives an exposition of the closely related problems of global welfare and justice. The book covers topics including: the general policy perspective required by sustainability economic growth in a historical perspective sustainability conceptions and measurement within ecological economics economics and ethics of climate change global food security the state of the seas on earth and locally (the Baltic Sea). As an introductory-level text the book will be useful to undergraduate students taking basic courses in economics and related fields, and will be comprehensible to anyone interested in environmental problems. Through the separate chapters on the problems of climate change, sustainable food production, and the overuse of the seas, the reader will easily see the practical relevance to the theoretical concepts presented and used in the book.

Elements of Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of ecological economics, an interdisciplinary project trying to give answers to the problems related to the overexploitation of the earth’s resources today. These include the problems of global warming (the greenhouse effect) and the overuse of the seas (e.g. overfishing). The book also gives an exposition of the closely related problems of global welfare and justice. The book covers topics including: the general policy perspective required by sustainability economic growth in a historical perspective sustainability conceptions and measurement within ecological economics economics and ethics of climate change global food security the state of the seas on earth and locally (the Baltic Sea). As an introductory-level text the book will be useful to undergraduate students taking basic courses in economics and related fields, and will be comprehensible to anyone interested in environmental problems. Through the separate chapters on the problems of climate change, sustainable food production, and the overuse of the seas, the reader will easily see the practical relevance to the theoretical concepts presented and used in the book.