Policy Challenges in a Complex World
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Policy Challenges in a Complex World brings together incisive contributions from radical and heterodox political economy. Across analyses of climate change, development, sovereign debt, financial instability, and labour markets, contributors move beyond technocratic fixes to reveal the class relations and global power structures that shape both problems and policies. This volume explores how inequality is not a side effect of crisis management, but a defining condition that constrains what policy can achieve.
Consistent with the intellectual tradition of Research in Political Economy, the volume advances rigorous class analysis while engaging a broad range of critical perspectives. Sharp, timely, and politically engaged, Policy Challenges in a Complex World offers scholars and students a framework for understanding - and challenging - the limits of policy in an unequal global economy.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Policy Challenges in a Complex World; Geoffrey E. Schneider and Matías Vernengo
- Part I. Power, Inequality and Institutional Change
- Chapter 2. Reformism and the Horizon of Change in Original Institutional Economics; Jacob Powell
- Chapter 3. From State to Market Apartheid: Neoliberal Shock Therapy and Its Impact on South Africa; Geoffrey E. Schneider
- Chapter 4. An Assessment of Post-Pandemic Inequality, Inflation, and Contributions at the Sectoral Level; Özlem Ömer
- Part II. Extractivism, Green Development, and Social Provisioning
- Chapter 5. Colombia's Total Peace Plan: Ending Violence in Resource Frontiers; Emma Banks
- Chapter 6. How Green Is China's Green Transition? Lithium, EVs, and the Environmental Quest in South America; Maria J. Haro Sly and Ricardo Lopes Kotz
- Chapter 7. From Capacity Creation to Capacity Realization: Labor, Housing, and Community Infrastructure as Essential Inputs to Critical Materials Supply Chains; Larry Wigger and Rachel L. R. Forester
- Part III. Ecological Macroeconomics, Growth and the External Constraint
- Chapter 8. Beyond Green Scarcity: Ecological Economics, Demand-Led Growth, and the External Constraint; Matías Vernengo
- Chapter 9. Liking the Environment to the External Financial Constraint: An Ecological Stock Flow Consistent Modeling for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region; Lorenzo Nalin, Leonardo Rojas Rodríguez, Esteban Pérez-Caldentey, José Eduardo Alatorre, and Giuliano Toshiro Yajima
- Chapter 10. Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth: The Kaya Equation through the Lens of Effective Demand and the Surplus Approach; Ariel Dvoskin, Alejandro Fiorito, and Mariana L. González
- Chapter 11. Dialectics, Ecology, and Harrod's Growth Model; Alfredo R. M. Rosete and Hendrik Van den Berg
Geoffrey E. Schneider is Charles P. Vaughan Chair in Economics and a Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, where he also serves as Affiliated Faculty in Critical Black Studies. Schneider’s research focuses on economic systems, development - particularly in Africa - and teaching and pedagogy.
Matías Vernengo is a Professor of Economics at Bucknell University and Director of the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy, with affiliations in Latin American Studies. He specializes in macroeconomics, international political economy, Latin American development, and the history of economic thought.