Focus and Scope

• Theories/concepts; critique of corporate activity, economic discourse/disciplines
• Environmental/welfare/development economics, fair-trade, aid, FDI, trickle down
• Neo-classical/Marxist/colonial, eco socialism/feminism, women's economics
• Costing resources, patriarchy and accumulation, resource allocation
• Government, freedom, democracy, privatisation, human happiness/needs hierarchy
• Bretton Woods, EU, UN, IMF, World Bank, WTO, GATTS
• Buying politics: war, arms trade, oil, war on terrorism; multinationals, globalisation
• Trading blocks, new protectionism, international governance, Tobin tax
• Offshoring, outsourcing, tariff barriers, new economic indicators, consumerism
• Green solutions, eco taxes, eco-labelling, environmental management as an industry
• Resource management, zero waste, site here to sell here, reuse, recycle, repair
• Quality of life, QoL indicators, consumerism, co-ops, land values, resource valuation
• New paradigms of the economy, grass roots activism, surplus reduction
• Social/environmental justice, participatory practices, polluter pays, triple bottom line
• Indigenous rights, less-developed countries, subsistence economies, poverty, wealth
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