Greening the State for a Sustainable Political Economy

Political Economy, Capitalism and Sustainable Development

After a critical review of conventional approaches to sustainability, this paper contrasts orthodox (neoclassical) economic theory with a political economy approach, arguing that such an approach focusing on the historically specific organizational form of production and the inherent characteristics of the capitalist mode of production is crucial for exploring the preconditions, the content and...

“The Political Economy of State Reform -- Political to the Core”

Only a professor of political science, indeed a specialist in theories of politics, would have the audacity to address a subject -state reform -on which he has intelligent opinions at most, and apply his views to state reform in a political system -Colombia -about which he appreciates only its broadest contours at best. Yet this is the task your National Planning Department has set for me, and ...

The Political Economy of State Failure

“ The Political Economy of State Terror ”

This paper analyzes factors contributing to terrorism, using its initial meaning from the French Revolution in which the state is the terrorist. The independent economic variables are mineral exports/GDP, military expenditures/GDP, real GDP growth, real per capita GDP, and population density, and the dependent variable is democide, the murder of people by government. Analysis of the data indica...

State Hegemony and Sustainable Development: A Political Economy Analysis of Two Local Experiences in Turkey