Beyond Ecological Economics and Development: Critical Reflections on the Thought of Manfred Max-Neef (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Short biography of Manfred Max-Neef
PART I: Human needs and well-being
	3. On the contributions of Max-Neef et al. to the theory of human needs
	4. Understanding Max-Neef’s model of human needs as a practical toolkit for supporting development work and societal transitions
	5. A new development paradigm based on happiness and well-being: Max-Neef’s contributions for building a better world
	6. The Human Scale Development approach: Is ‘spirituality’ a fundamental human need?
	7. Addressing fundamental human needs: Exploring the Human Scale Development proposal for governance and policymaking
PART II: Development, growth and sustainability
	8. Overcoming the development discourse: Max-Neef and economic growth
	9. How Human Scale Development can help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 agenda
	10. Climate change and planetary boundaries: An overview from the biocentric perspective of Max-Neef
	11. Demand-side, socio-cultural and systemic solutions: The contributions of Max-Neef’s work for climate change and sustainability
	12. Human scale sustainable development: Where Max-Neef’s fundamental human needs meet sustainability
	13. Economic growth and well-being: Examining Max-Neef’s “threshold hypothesis”
PART III: Methodology of economics
	14. The thinking of Manfred Max-Neef and the challenge to neoclassic economics and policy orthodoxy
	15. The Gustibus est Disputandum: Building a bridge between mainstream economics and Max-Neef’s Theory of Fundamental Needs
	16. Manfred Max-Neef and heterodox economics: Influences, and links with Piero Sraffa
	17. The methodology of barefoot economics
	18. Max-Neef’s complete bibliography
Index