Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy
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DOI：
10.1080/13563467.2022.2038114
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发表时间：
2022-02-19
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4.2
通讯作者：
Meramveliotakis, Giorgos
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作者：
Manioudis, Manolis;Meramveliotakis, Giorgos
本文旨在为分析可持续发展的分析和方法框架提供一些概括性的建议。这就要求研究可持续发展的学者回归到古典政治经济学的多层遗产中，并从历史和超历史的角度来构想可持续发展。有人认为，通过斯密、密尔和马克思的发展阶段理论，回归古典政治经济学的传统，提供了一个强大的理论框架，能够将发展研究中的多种、多样和中程的当代分支置于背景中，发展和整合。古典政治经济学提供了某些要素的分析支柱，包括历史的重要作用，跨学科方法的必要性，以及对社会阶层的分析优先权，这些对丰富可持续发展研究至关重要。研究国际发展的学生和学者将受益于这项有价值的工作，它以简洁和系统的方式区分发展研究的现状和关于经济发展的经典政治经济学观点。
This article aims to provide some broad strokes towards an analytical and methodological framework for the analysis of sustainable development. This is done by calling sustainable development's scholars to return to the multilayered legacy of the classical political economy and conceive sustainable development in both historical and transhistorical terms. It is argued that a return to the tradition of the classical political economy, through the lens of Smith's, Mill's and Marx's stage theories of development, provides a powerful theoretical framework able to contextualise, develop and integrate the multiple, diverse, and middle-range contemporary strands in development studies. The classical political economy provides an analytical backbone of certain elements, including the important role of history, the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach, and the analytical priority of social classes that could be critical in enriching sustainable development studies. Students and scholars of international development would benefit from this worthwhile exercise that distinguishes in a succinctly and methodically manner between the current state of development studies and classical political economy perspectives on economic development.