Innovation, Automation and a Sustainable Economy - Jon-Arild Johannessen

Innovation, Automation and a Sustainable Economy

Tackling the Inequality, Climate and Biodiversity Crises
Buch | Hardcover
144 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-73240-4 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book demonstrates how the Green New Deal and its Systemic alternative, the Red New Deal, could influence the course of three systemically linked global crises - economic inequality, the environmental crisis and the climate crisis - all within the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Economic inequality, the environmental crisis and the climate crisis are systemically linked. Accordingly, they should be understood as a single, interconnected system and strategies for resolving them should be guided by this understanding. This book demonstrates how the Green New Deal and its systemic alternative, the Red New Deal, could influence the course of these three global crises, all within the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The author has developed several scenarios that are relevant to the automation that will result from advances in artificial intelligence and intelligent robots. The first is one of mass unemployment, while the second envisages low rates of unemployment, although workers will experience stagnation and then a decline in their wages. It is possible to envisage a different set of scenarios; however, we must replace the capitalist economic model with a different model: mutualism, a sustainable model that would allow for economic growth while also addressing the three current systemic crises. The author argues that if such a model is implemented, there will be jobs for everyone and the climate crisis will be tackled because people’s welfare will be prioritized over profit. We can assert that such a model will foster the development of economic equality. The basic premise of this mutual and sustainable economic model is that sustainability is in everyone’s interests.

The book employs not only established and innovative methods, such as literature reviews, scenario thinking and historical methods, to underpin its arguments, but also conceptual generalization as an intellectual tool to tackle the general research problem; thus, it will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of sustainability and the innovation economy.

Jon-Arild Johannessen is Full Professor at Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway.

1. Sustainability: From a Green New Deal to a Red New Deal 2. The Climate and Environmental Crisis 3. Work for All 4. Economic Fairness

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation
Zusatzinfo 28 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 449 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-032-73240-7 / 1032732407
ISBN-13 978-1-032-73240-4 / 9781032732404
Zustand Neuware
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