Judy Brown, Peter Soderbaum, Malgorzata Dereniowska

Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

Reconsidering Policy, Economics and Accounting

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society but it has also played a dominant role in a period where problems have been aggravated. A pluralist and democratic view of economics is therefore very much warranted. This book presents a multidimensional and ideologically more open view of economics: understanding economics in multidimensional terms is in accordance with the 17 sustainable development goals recognized by nations at the UN-level in 2015.

Accordingly, approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered. Neoclassical Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) with focus on the monetary dimension and an assumed consensus about a specific market ideology to be applied is not compatible with democratic societies where citizen and actors in other roles normally differ with respect to ideological orientation. Environmental Impact Statements and Multi-Criteria methods are used to some extent to broaden approaches to decision-making. In this book, Positional Analysis is advocated as a multidimensional and ideologically open approach. Positional Analysis is based on a political economic conceptual framework (as part of ecological economics) that differs from neoclassical ideas of individuals, firms and markets. And since approaches to decision-making and to accounting are closely connected, a new theoretical perspective in economics similarly raises issues of how national and business accounting can be opened up to meet present demands among various actors in society. This perspective raises also numerous ethical questions at the science and policy interface that need to be properly addressed for sustainability decision making.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351798013
• Artikelnr.: 48416946

Autorenporträt

Judy Brown is a Professor of Accounting at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.



Peter Söderbaum is Professor Emeritus in Ecological Economics at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.



Malgorzata Dereniowska is an Associated Member of GREQAM-AMSE, Aix-Marseille University, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Democracy as a lead concept in dealing with sustainable
development (Peter Söderbaum)
Chapter 2: Fundamentals of sustainability economics and positional analysis
(Peter Söderbaum)
Chapter 3: Mainstream economics and alternative perspectives in a political
power game (Peter Söderbaum)
Chapter 4: Positional analysis as an approach to decision-making,
accounting and democracy (Peter Söderbaum)
Chapter 5: On the need for broadening out and opening up accounting (Judy
Brown)
Chapter 6: Positional analysis in relation to other pluralistic accounting
practices (Judy Brown)
Chapter 7: Sustainability, ethics, and democracy: A pluralistic approach to
the navigation of disagreements (Mägorzata Dereniowska)
Chapter 8: Positional analysis and practical ethics (Mägorzata Dereniowska)
Chapter 9: Democracy, sustainability and positional analysis: An interview
with Peter Söderbaum (with introduction by Judy Brown)
Chapter 10: Philosophy, ethics and positional analysis: An interview with
Peter Söderbaum (with introduction by Mägorzata Dereniowska)
Appendix: The early history of positional analysis (Peter Söderbaum)
Index