The Social Economics of Neoliberal Globalization

Abstract

Neoliberalism, Globalization, Social economics, Schumpeter, Polanyi, Great capitalist restoration,

Embedding sustainability in university work experience placements: a De Montfort University model

“…The area of sustainability is one in which universities can make pragmatic contributions towards meeting modern societal and business needs. Since the previous century, longstanding classical business and production models have necessarily been creeping away from a wholly economic perspective to one that acknowledges the need to minimise the socioenvironmental impacts of commercial activity (Badiru and Agustiady, 2021;Mendonca et al, 2010;Stanfield and Carroll, 2009). However, due to resource and size limitations, the pressing priority of many SMEs in particular is financial survival (Shkolnykova and Kudic, 2021;Xu and Li, 2019), with socio-environmental responsibility not viewed as a value-adding philosophy, and hence not actively integrated into companies' operations (Shields and Shelleman, 2015).…”

Stanfield’s Concepts of Social and Political Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

“…The anomaly of global and regional uneven development is a manifestation of the contradiction between hegemonic nations and those of much less political and economic power; which is closely related to the contradiction between different nation states and the inability to solve problems related to fictitious commodity reproduction on the global scale (labor, land and money). These problems thus concern the social and ecological reproduction needs of the planet (the protective response; Stanfield and Carroll 2009), which need to be provided by the community for the system to survive in the long-term.…”

Over the horizon: Exploring the conditions of a post-growth world

“…This central objective emerged as the common element of several competing schools of economic theory during the 20th century, including the major strands -socialist state planning, social democracy, and laissez faire capitalism. Despite their outward differences, these economic doctrines consistently prioritize short-term maximization of economic output while largely failing to the consider the ecological viability of future societies or the wellbeing of non-human species (Gill, 1995;Scrieciu and Stringer, 2008;Stanfield and Carroll, 2009). The ensuing 'Great Acceleration' and subsequent expansion of the biophysical basis of society, while vastly increasing material living standards for segments of a swelling global population, has culminated in the formative stages of the proposed Anthropocene epoch (Crutzen, 2006;Steffen et al, 2007Steffen et al, , 2011.…”