Fundamentos para una economía ecológica y social

This work represents one of the most lucid and articulated syntheses about the variety and potential of economic thought, coming to question the existence of: the economy; as a singular entity and the unsustainability of the models oriented towards growth and capital accumulation, within which the social and ecological variables are considered as external to the organization and functioning of the economy itself. Clive L. Spash, one of the ecological economists who has most irreverently contributed in recent decades to building and founding a radical vision of ecological and social economics, dedicates this book to exploring and projecting, in a somewhat provocative way, its evolution, relying on consciously in the failures of environmental economics, tensions with conventional economics and the need to provide a new approach to the eco-social crisis. If, on the one hand, orthodox economics has been unable to address the social and environmental dimensions as aspects of crucial importance to understand the functioning and reproduction of economic systems, on the other, heterodox currents, such as socialism / Marxism, the Feminism, post-Keynesianism or institutional economics have also failed to consistently incorporate these same dimensions into their analyzes and proposals. In this way, issues such as multidisciplinarity, pluralism and integration of the sciences, the relationships between orthodox and heterodox economic thought, or how an ecologically and socially transformative agenda for the economy could be designed are analyzed in detail in this work. The author thus manages to design an updated and revised set of positions that provide a complex and integrative perspective of the ecological and social economy in ontological, epistemological, methodological and ideological terms, because it should be considered that; there are only alternatives!