The Sustainable Development Theory: A Critical Approach, Volume 1 - Ion Pohoata - Bog

Introduction
Chapter I: The avatars of sustainability: A necessary prolegomenon
I.1. Why is it important to look back to the founders?
I.2. Sustainable development: everything and nothing
I.3. How do we understand the Brundtland Report?
I.4. What is sustainability? The sustainability-durability-resilience kit.
Chapter II: Classical insights in support of sustainability
II.1. Work division and human cooperation - fundamental determinants
II.2. Social harmony in an economically stratified world.
II.3. The institutionalism of economic order at the classics:
II.3.1. Job description for the invisible hand
II.3.2. Informal institutions of an open economy: money, market, and property.
II.4. Work, accumulation and profit in the preface to the economy of happiness. The exception of the happy abstinence of J.S. Mill
II.5. Competition in the free market and the origin of bubble-free GDP.
II.6. Does economic geography matter? Ricardo and Malthus: the physical limits of development
II.7. Moral responsibility in Adam Smith''s language
Conclusion: An Adamist economy: a sustainable vision.
Chapter III: How sustainable are the neoclassics?
III.1. Sustainability does not agree with:
1.1. Homo economicus rationalis and his environmental void
1.2. The supply and demand pendulum with limitless resources: A macro economy for an ideal world.
III.2. Fulcrums:
2.1. Pareto or what each generation deserves
2.2. Two sentences from Walras:
2.2.1. There are no ideal sustainability models
2.2.2. Economic efficiency is nothing if it is not social as well
2.3. Drifts towards environment sustainability: A. Marshall, A.C. Pigou
Conclusion: Neoclassical macroeconomics: lacking sustainability
Chapter IV: The social strain: reversed causalities and the risk of weakening the lesson on sustainability
IV.1. When social peace undermines the logic of sustainability
IV.2. The anti-social heresy of anti-economism
IV.3. Reassigning the development paradigm in the area of distributive justice
IV.3.1. Distribution before production: The workplace promise
IV.3.2. Pikettism or the pathos of quantitative levelling
IV.4. Market social economy of sustainability
Conclusions: Redistributive justice: a Trojan horse of unsustainability
Chapter V: Founder benchmarks in environmental economics
V.1. Whose land is the "mother of wealth"? What means the physiocracy today?
V.2. Why is the classical Marxist preoccupied with pollution and resource exhaustion?
V.3. The reasonable pessimism of Ricardo and Malthus
V.4. Marshall and Pigou: The pollutant has to pay.
Conclusions: The environment as an implicit preoccupation of economic growth
Chapter VI: Decrease - a logical inadequacy
VI.1. Between hypocrisy and law-like necessity
VI.2. Is Mill a predecessor of decrease?
VI.3. The seductive logic of decrease: Nicolae Georgescu-Roegen
VI.4. Happiness through decreasing
VI.5. Towards a new consumption dialectic
Chapter VII: Validation of the classics: Long term sustainability
VII.1. Schumpeter, Kuznets, Davos. A new face of "creative destruction"
VII.2.