Striving for Economic and Political Sustainability

Economic Crisis, ‘Political Sustainability’ and the International Financial Architecture

We examine some recent cases in which stabilisation has failed for political reasons, in the process developing a model of political response to crisis which stems from the ‘survival strategy’ literature. Alongside the ‘standard’ correlations of stabilisation failure with inequality and deficiencies in social capital, we also draw attention in this context to the ability of ‘pro-poor expenditur...

Environmental Management as Political Sustainability

Grounded in critical theory and the Gramscian concept of hegemony, this article argues that environmental management (EM) can be understood as an accommodation to growing public awareness of environmental problems that potentially threatens dominant hegemonic coalitions. On the material level, EM is a set ofpractices that ameliorates the more egregious environmental consequences of industrial p...

Sustainability and Economic Policy Syllabus

A new era of of human development is upon us. The rates of technological, economic, social and environmental change have dramatically increased since the 1950s; we live in a world that is characteristically different from the one all previous generations of humans experienced. On many fronts, humanity is presently navigating the unseen [23]. Despite a variety of undeniable achievements of our s...

Sustainability and its Economic Interpretations

New Challenges of Globalization in Striving for Competitive Advantage and Sustainability

in many respects a remarkable meeting. It was a great moment for the School of Business , Montclair State University as we have successfully organized and implemented the 11th event in cooperation with Comenius University and a number of partner universities from around the world. The conference had accepted 219 papers and 7 abstracts after submitting them to a double review process. The confer...