New-build gated condominiums at the periphery of a post-socialist city are a well-studied phenomenon. However, in Poland, recent years have seen an expansion of residential gating into old inner-city neighbourhoods and socialist large housing estates. The resulting fragmentation and...

New-build gated condominiums at the periphery of a post-socialist city are a well-studied phenomenon. However, in Poland, recent years have seen an expansion of residential gating into old inner-city neighbourhoods and socialist large housing estates. The resulting fragmentation and...

Aushandlungsprozesse im Energiebereich bilden oftmals Kristallisationspunkte für Gemeinwohlkonflikte. In den Auseinandersetzungen um konkrete EnergieinfrastrukturProjekte wird darum gerungen, welche Interessen als Interessen der Allgemeinheit und damit als legitime Interessen anerkannt werden...

Aushandlungsprozesse im Energiebereich bilden oftmals Kristallisationspunkte für Gemeinwohlkonflikte. In den Auseinandersetzungen um konkrete EnergieinfrastrukturProjekte wird darum gerungen, welche Interessen als Interessen der Allgemeinheit und damit als legitime Interessen anerkannt werden...

Dieses Buch soll Mut machen. Es vereint ein beziehungsreiches Denken mit einer neuen Art zu handeln. Das Ziel: eine freie, faire und lebendige Gesellschaft. Doch das Gewohnte hat sich tief eingegraben in unseren Köpfen, in unserem Alltag, in Markt und Staat. Silke Helfrich und David Bollier...

Alongside increasing urbanization, the city has become a particularly important subject of studies. Cities bear the brunt of the most intense indicators of civilization processes and social change. Simultaneously, the influence of the civilizing processes and the deepening of globalisation have...

Chapter 1: Introduction: What Are Common Wealth Dividends (CWDs)? -- Chapter 2:. Thomas Paine and the Perennial Problem of Land Reform -- Chapter 3: CWDs as Applied to Natural Resources -- Chapter 4: CWD as Applied to Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 5: Common Wealth Dividends in Theory and Practice.

Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink. Thomas Paine's 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice and Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend are staples in the literature on Basic Income,...

"It is said that COVID-19 pandemic has turned back the poverty clock. As such, there is need to have social mechanisms put in place to provide relief to those who are affected in this regard. Islamic social finance consists of tools and institutions that could be used to alleviate poverty. This...

Why won't my TV turn on? -- Where has empathy gone? -- Outside in, not inside out -- Politics: the invisible straitjacket -- You have been denied access to this chapter -- Show me your deck! -- What's that lurking in the shadows? Aggh, it's a rule!! -- Fear and loathing in the corporate world --...

Poverty eradication has been repeatedly identified as the largest challenge facing international society in its quest for a peaceful, prosperous, and just world. The present document summarizes academic reflections on the links between the concepts of poverty, development and sustainability....

Cover -- Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- 1. Gemeinwohl und Humanität -- 2. Über die Warenförmigkeit als Abstraktionsform derVerfahrensgerechtigkeit -- 3. Die »Paideia« und die Überwindung des ethischen Formalismussowie des Utilitarismus im Rahmen einer...