Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Economic and Ecological Crises: Green new deals and no-growth economies

  • Thematic Section
  • Published:
Development Aims and scope

Abstract

Bob Jessop applies cultural political economy to the global economic and ecological crisis. He presents theoretical preliminaries concerning economic and ecological imaginaries, and then goes on to highlight the multidimensional nature of the current crisis and struggles over its interpretation.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

Notes

  1. This article derives from a professorial fellowship funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (Grant number: RES-051-27-0303).

References

  • Abraham, Yves-Marie (2011) ‘Little Vade Mecum for the growth objector’, Montreal: HEC. Available at montreal.degrowth.org/aboutdegrowth, accessed 18 November 2011.

  • Altvater, Elmar (2010) ‘Overcoming the Economic and the Environmental Crisis: The solidarity economy’, Presentation at Florence, May. Downloadable at http://www.transform-network.net/Altvater-Transform-Firenze-mai2010.ppt, accessed 18 November 2011.

  • Brand, Ulrich (2009) ‘Schillernd und technokratisch. Grüner New Deal als magic bullet in der Krise des liberal-imperialen Kapitalismus?’ Prokla 156: 475–481.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brüggen, Willi (2001) ‘Grüner New Deal’, in Wolfgang Fritz Haug (ed.) Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus Bd. 5, pp 1062–1070, Berlin: Argument Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark, John (1998) ‘A Social Ecology’, in Michael E. Zimmerman (ed.) Environmental Philosophy: From animal rights to radical ecology, pp 416–440, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deutsch, Karl (1963) The Nerves of Government: Models of political communication and control, New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jessop, Bob (2009) ‘Cultural political economy and critical policy studies’, Critical Policy Studies 3 (3): 336–356.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jessop, Bob (2012) ‘Beyond finance-dominated capitalism? Critical reflections on growth regimes’. Lancaster University, UK: Cultural Political Economy Research Centre.

  • New Economics Foundation (2008) A Green New Deal: Joined-up policies to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change, and high oil prices, London: New Economics Foundation.

  • Offe, Claus (1984) Contradictions of the Welfare State, London: Hutchinson.

    Google Scholar 

  • Polanyi, Karl (1957) The Great Transformation: The political and economic origins of our time, New York: Rinehart.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Bob Jessop
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Highlights the multi-dimensional nature of the current crisis

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Jessop, B. Economic and Ecological Crises: Green new deals and no-growth economies. Development 55, 17–24 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.104

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.104

Keywords

Search

Navigation