Seeking sustainability : on the prospect of an ecological liberalism / by G.J. Paton.

Utilising a conceptual approach based on the Polanyian concept of 'embeddedness', this book argues that the links between economic theory, neo-liberalism, and the current regime of sustainable development, have rendered 'sustainability' a discursive frame in the service of econom...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Paton, Joy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:New political economy ; 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ecological political economy
  • Ecological sustainability and embeddedness
  • Embeddedness in liberalism and neo-liberalism
  • Changing discourses of sustainability
  • Environmental neo-liberalism
  • The substantive roots of liberalism
  • Economic liberalism
  • Political liberalism
  • Social liberalism
  • The sustainability of liberalism.