'Labour Law Utopias' engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. It explores alternative approaches and what those would mean for work in general, and labour law in particular.

The national independent innovation demonstration zone (NIIDZ) is an independent innovation policy that plays a crucial role in implementing strategies. Given the importance of the NIIDZ, this study uses panel data of 278 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2020 and empirically...

The Degrowth movement advocates a radical shift from our capitalist economic system to one based on human needs, planetary boundaries, and economic democracy. The literature, however, often neglects detailing the concrete coordination mechanisms of a Degrowth economy. This paper addresses this...

This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects should be an essential consideration for economic development. The chapter starts by developing a conceptual framework explaining how gender equality and economic development...

The economy is traditionally human-centered and has given too little consideration to plants, animals, climate, and nature in general. What should the economy do to become 'green'? Changing people's social norms would be ideal but is hard to achieve. Second best is to regulate and constrain the...

In the growing economy of developing countries, the environment is getting unsustainable. There is the requirement of goals that are standardized and complementary for the promotion of Green Economy Growth and developed the constraints confronting transformation and providing opportunities....

The concept of ‘frugal abundance’ has recently been mentioned in numerous degrowth publications and even presented as “the essence of degrowth” (Kallis et al., 2022, p.2). However, it has not yet been clearly conceptualised. The aim of this article is to start filling this gap through a...

In this article, we propose a model of innovative economy remodeling, which aims to increase economic complexity by developing and investing in the green economy. We create this model for example of a transitional economy, which is the economy of Ukraine. For a comprehensive statistical analysis...

The author, a lecturer in Accounting at Pasim National University, completed her undergraduate studies at Telkom University Bandung (2014) and holds a Master's degree in Accounting from Unpad Bandung (2018). She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Accounting at Airlangga University Surabaya...

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

This study investigates the preferences of Islamic Financing Instruments to promote green economy transformation. This study uses the ANP-BOCR (Benefit, Opportunity, Cost, Risk) and Delphi methods, with two groups of experts as the respondents, namely academicians and practitioners. The result...

Asian countries are growing with rapid pace and competing with European and Western Countries in order to make their presence felt in the global market. Globally demand of goods and services from Asian countries has been consistently increasing since the last decade many due to low production...

The New Deal programs of the 1930s, at a time of rapid industrialization, widening economic inequality, gender and racial exclusionary policies are not the ideal reference point for present day solutions to labor and environment justice. This article argues that the Green New Deal (GND) must...

The corona virus outburst was declared a global pandemic in March 2020, making many countries to go on lockdown in order to try to restrain it and avoid or dimmish the overwhelming of national health systems. As work and studies went online and social distancing became a safety rule, social...

We use a DSGE model to study the effectiveness of green-asset purchases by the central bank (Green QE), along the transition to a carbon-free economy driven by an emission tax, abstracting from price stability considerations. We find that Green QE helps to further reduce emissions, especially...

A green economy results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. A green economy can provide growth-positive, employment-positive, and poverty-negative in Bangladesh. The study aims to identify the bottlenecks...

Despite the rising number of green finance policies, the origins shaping them remain largely unexamined. Using survival analysis to investigate the factors influencing the adoption of green finance policies, we find that social movement pressure, proxied by fossil fuel divestment, mainly drives...

The article analyses potential intellectual-property-related disputes amid transfer of technology in the green economy within the international investment legal regime. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) protect human innovation and intellectual efforts. Tech transfer, IPRs in particular, has...

The rippling effects of multiple overlapping crises on the economy, declining education outcomes, and inability of the education system to meet the upcoming needs of the labor market puts the Slovak Republic in a human capital crisis. There is a misalignment between the supply and outcomes of...

The study presents a Green Economy Index that evaluates the quality of green economies in the BRICS countries based on three pillars: environment, economic performance, and quality of green living. Research findings suggest that the BRICS nations are gradually shifting their focus from mere...