Stephen Marglin examines how the culture of economics has impacted on Third World cultures. He argues that economics is possessed by its own theory of culture based on the market as the organizing principle of life, one that we need to go beyond.

Stephen Marglin and Tariq Banuri argue that the debate between neoclassical and ecological economists over the limits to growth cannot be resolved by appealing to their empirical analyses, but by using the framework of environmental justice.