Democratizing economics: pluralism as a path toward sustainability.

摘要: Climate scientists point to a number of unsustainable trends concerning the environment and natural resources. There is also ongoing concern about poverty reduction, labor rights, other social aspects sustainable development. Growing numbers argue that change required, but still at issue extent how facilitate it. In this paper, focus on dominant interpretive schema influential actors with respect ideas science in society, paradigms economics, ideological orientations. The authors monopolistic position neoclassical economics university departments different parts world, spread its associated technocratic logic within broader policy arenas, should be abandoned favor more ideologically open attitude facilitates discussion debate academia, public policy, civil society generally. sense, requires "democratization" implications for approaches sustainability monitoring, accounting, assessment projects policies. paper provides suggestions developing technologies practices take pluralism seriously.