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Description
A ground-breaking framework that redefines price formation as the structural foundation of sustainability, The Price of Sustainability argues that 'true pricing' can restore long-term and inclusive economic viability.
Through grounding in rigorous fieldwork, financial analysis, and the economic insights of Rudolf Steiner, this book exposes the reality behind today's pricing; that they are systematically falsified and don't reflect the reality of sustaining labour, nature and capital. To counter this, Andrillon introduces the concept of true pricing as a diagnostic framework, discerning when a price reflects viability, and when it conceals impending collapse.
In the opening chapters, the author guides you through both the contemporary failure of sustainable development and the shortcomings of economic approaches to this issue. Transitioning from diagnosis to construction, Chapter 4 formalizes the concept of a “true price”; it argues that a price is only true if it enables the full reproduction of labour, nature, and capital across time. The following chapters present the operational core of this framework, illustrating how it can be used across sectors as a practical evaluative method.
Bridging political economy, sustainability science, and economic theory while offering a highly original contribution to debates on degrowth, post-capitalism, and ecological transition, this innovative text is the perfect companion for undergraduate students, postgraduate students, scholars and policy-makers working at the intersection of sustainability, political economy, ecological economics, development studies, and accounting.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Observation
Introduction to Part I
Chapter 1: Accounting for Economic Reality
1.1. Beyond Brundtland
1.2. Observational Foundations
1.3. Mirrored Accounting
1.4. The Self-Examining Economy
Chapter 2: True Price
2.1. Needs Before Allocation
2.2. The True Price Formula
Chapter 3: Four Indicators of True Price
3.1. Initiating Price Validation
3.2. Revenue Independence
3.3. Full Cost Coverage
3.4. Asset Renewal
3.5. Debt Sustainability
3.6. Price Validation in Practice
3.7. The Four Indicators as a Cohesive System
Chapter 4: Sources of Economic Value
4.1. Value as Meeting
4.2. Value Creation Through Labour and Intelligence
4.3. Value in Production, Price in Exchange
Chapter 5: Money, Capital, and Price Formation
5.1. Three Kinds of Money and Their Economic Roles
5.2. The Role of Capital
5.3. Coordination Regimes and Price Patterns
Part II: Diagnosis
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 6: The Architecture of Price Falsification
6.1. Forms of Falsification
6.2. Why Falsification Persists
6.3. From Individual Impossibility to Institutional Specification
Chapter 7: Economic Thought's Fragmented Diagnosis
7.1. The Lost Standard
7.2. Labour, Social Reproduction, and the Invisible Subsidy
7.3. Land, Natural Resources, and Renewable Boundaries
7.4. Capital, Control, and Extraction
7.5. Coordination, Visibility, and Systemic Lock-in
Chapter 8: Contemporary Tools and Their Limits
8.1. Requirements Without Feasibility
8.2. Outcomes Without Causes
8.3. Aggregates Without Origins
8.4. Toward Unified Diagnosis
Part III: Application
Introduction to Part III
Chapter 9: Associative Coordination
9.1. The Logic of Associations
9.2. Instruments of Coordination
9.3. Governance for Viability
9.4. Decommodifying Land
Chapter 10: Finance for True Pricing
10.1. Stewardship of Credit
10.2. Reading Accounts Relationally
10.3. Realigning Capital Flows
Chapter 11: Monetary Architecture
11.1. Banking Reform
11.2. Clearing Systems
11.3. Keynes's Symmetry and What Lies Beyond
11.4. Gift Money and Capital's Lifecycle
Chapter 12: From Viability to Stability
12.1. The Economic Organism
12.2. When Design Replaces Rescue
12.3. What True Prices Accomplish
12.4. Compulsion and Choice
12.5. Feasibility and Necessity
Conclusion: The Reckoning of Prices
Methodological Postscript
Index
References
About the Author
Product details
| Published | Jan 21 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781350608795 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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