‚Markt‘ ist einer der wichtigsten Begriffe der Ökonomik. Die meisten bezeichnen das Wirtschaftssystem als ‚Marktwirtschaft‘ oder als ‚soziale Marktwirtschaft‘. Markt ist aber ein vieldeutiger und kaum erforschter Begriff, weder was seine Theoriegeschichte noch seine institutionelle Ausgestaltung oder die Wirkungen des Gebrauchs von „dem“ Markt (im Sinne eines agierenden Subjekts) angeht.

This fresh and unique textbook provides students and general readers with an introduction to economics from a new and much needed perspective, characterised by its uniquely pluralist, sustainable, progressive and global approach. Unlike traditional textbooks, Introducing a New Economics contains the key concepts of pluralism, sustainability and justice. It provides students with the central questions covered by economics including resources, work, employment, poverty, inequality, power, capital, markets, money, debt and value.

Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy. However, its economic growth has generated rising problems in inequality, alienation, and sustainability with the agrarian crises of the 1990s giving rise to real social outcry to the extent that they became the object of central government policy reformulations.