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Author | : Adolfo Figueroa |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2023-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3031210727 |
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This book contains another set of essays dealing with the fundamental economic problems of our time: inequality, environment degradation, and social disorder, which are analyzed in light of the unified theory of capitalism. This theory is a scientific endeavor that seeks to explain the capitalist system taken by parts and then taken as a whole, as a unified theory. By parts, the theory analyzes the First World and the Third World and also the short run, long run, and very long run economic processes, showing why and how economic growth has led to a new epoch, with ecological equilibrium disruption, known as the Anthropocene Age. The empirical predictions of the theory are proven to be consistent with the available facts. Therefore, the theory can be accepted as a good representation of the real-world capitalism; moreover, its derived causality relations become inputs for the debate on the needed science-based policies for the new age. Indeed, this book proposes structural policies to change the way capitalism operates, through changes in its basic institutions, mainly the electoral democracy, which would certainly imply a re-foundation of the capitalist system.
Author | : Adolfo Figueroa |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030795659 |
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This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system. A unified theory of capitalism is not the combination of the predominant economic theories—neoclassical, classical, and Keynesian—so as to make them compatible. It is not a composite economic theory. It is a new economic theory. Predictions of the theory’s models were consistent with eight basic empirical regularities of capitalism dealing with economic growth, income inequality, employment level, and environment degradation. Therefore, the unified theory can be accepted as a good approximation of the real capitalist world. But the models were constructed at a high level of abstraction. Also problematic was the need to work out more fully the public policy implications of the theory. It is, therefore, no wonder that essays on the unified theory to answer these questions are a natural outcome of a new scientific endeavor attempting to reach a unity of knowledge in economics.
Author | : Leonard Nevarez |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136817476 |
Download Pursuing Quality of Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From anxieties over work-life balance and entangling technologies, to celebrations of cool jobs and great places to live, quality of life frames the ways we enhance our lives and legitimate social change today. But how does the idea of quality of life envision the greater good, and what gets lost as a result? This book provides the critical framework for understanding the idea’s contexts and tensions that are conspicuously missing in popular discussions, professional activities, and scholarly research on quality of life. With multiple case studies taken across North America and Europe, it provides a sociological perspective on the contradictory ways we talk about and pursue quality of life in relation to technology, consumerism, family, work, public space, rural ways of life, and ultimately the final years of life. Drawing on contemporary and classical social theory, it provides an incisive account of the historical shifts in developed societies over the last half-century that have transformed our views and pursuits of quality of life. Originally a promise to undertake collective effort and pursue social justice at a moment of unprecedented opportunity, quality of life now enshrines a solipsistic ideal with which to accommodate the storms of market forces and political failure.
Author | : Henrik Christoffersen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3642372384 |
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Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay on top. They both have a strong liberal tradition, but otherwise their economic strategies are a welfare state model for Denmark and a safe haven model for Switzerland. The Danish welfare state is tax-based, while the expenditures for social welfare are insurance-based in Switzerland. The political institutions are a multiparty unicameral system in Denmark, and a permanent coalition system with many referenda and strong local government in Switzerland. Both approaches have managed to ensure smoothly working political power-sharing and economic systems that allocate resources in a fairly efficient way. To date, they have also managed to adapt the economies to changes in the external environment with a combination of stability and flexibility.
Author | : William Vincent D'Antonio |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781412822091 |
Download Ecology, Society and the Quality of Social Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The twelve contributors to this volume, from ten different nations, are world-renowned sociologists who examine problems of ecology and world resources as they affect the quality of social life. Three different perspectives are employed: high technology, industrialization, and the problems of development; restructuring and alternatives of development; and social movements and social policies.
Author | : K. G. Srinivasa |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2022-05-21 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 981192161X |
Download Society 5.0: Smart Future Towards Enhancing the Quality of Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book discusses Society 5.0 which fills the gap between cyber and physical space by providing a balanced environment between economic and social needs. The book is divided into two parts; part A focuses on various concepts related to Society 5.0 such as cyber space, physical space, information management and digital transformation. Part B discusses various integrated fields in Society 5.0, such as super-smart healthcare system, super-smart hospitality system, smart building, and transport management system. It also illustrates the concepts of big data, real-time analytics for smart Society 5.0 with an insight of real-time case studies.
Author | : Jonathan Lyons |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608195724 |
Download The Society for Useful Knowledge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment-think 1776 meets The Metaphysical Club.
Author | : Pamela Abbott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317438272 |
Download The Decent Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The search for ‘the Decent Society’ – a fit place in which to live – has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social structure. Influenced by classical sociology and by the economist Amartya Sen, the book posits that societies need to create (a) economic security, (b) social cohesion, (c) social inclusion, and (d) the conditions for empowerment. The model is interactive and recursive; each component provides the requirements for each of the others. This book outlines the sociopolitical framework underlying ’the Decent Society' and summarises a decade of research, some of which has had a formative impact on governments’ policies. The first half contains studies of social quality based on surveys in the former Soviet Union and sub-Saharan Africa, while the second half describes the construction of a Decent Society Index for comparing very different countries across the world. This book and the index it develops will be of interest both to academics and researchers in sociology, politics, economics, psychology, social policy and development studies and to policy-makers in government, local government and the NGOs.
Author | : Martin Guzman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2018-08-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0231546807 |
Download Toward a Just Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Joseph Stiglitz is one of the world’s greatest economists. He has made fundamental contributions to economic theory in areas such as inequality, the implications of imperfect and asymmetric information, and competition, and he has been a major figure in policy making, a leading public intellectual, and a remarkably influential teacher and mentor. This collection of essays influenced by Stiglitz’s work celebrates his career as a scholar and teacher and his aspiration to put economic knowledge in the service of creating a fairer world. Toward a Just Society brings together a range of essays whose breadth reflects how Stiglitz has shaped modern economics. The contributions to this volume, all penned by high-profile authors who have been guided by or collaborated with Stiglitz over the last five decades, span microeconomics, macroeconomics, inequality, development, law and economics, and public policy. Touching on many of the central debates and discoveries of the field and providing insights on the directions that academic economics could take in the future, Toward a Just Society is an extraordinary celebration of the many paths Stiglitz has opened for economics, politics, and public life.
Author | : Robert Bellah |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307787923 |
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THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.