We begin with an economic model of science according to which signals concerning scientific reputation both serve to coordinate the plans of individuals in the scientific domain and ensure that the knowledge that emerges from interactions between scientists and the environment is reliable...

This thesis engages with the organizing of participation in participatory art that constitutes the so-called social turn in contemporary visual art. The purpose of the research project is to generate new knowledge about participatory art, in particular, by investigating the organizational...

Introduction: Liquid borders. Migrancy as resistance / Mabel Moraña -- Proliferating borders in the battlefield of migration. Rethinking freedom of movement / Sandro Mezzadra -- Fugitives of the impossible life : transborders, migrations and displacements / José Manuel Valenzuela Arce -- The...

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Inequality and the Plurality of Life-Styles -- 3. Inequality Processes and Vertical Social Stratification -- 4. Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics -- 5. From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa -- 6. The Order of Social Sciences -- 7. Bounded...

This book deals with the neglected links in economics and society. These neglected links are the inner bonds and lines which keep the society and economy together and are almost interconnected although they are very often treated and discussed separately in different discourses. Contemporary...

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...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1_Introduction To Unified Theory Of Capitalism -- Chapter 2_Scientific Economic Laws Of Capitalism -- Chapter 3_European Colonialism And Capitalist Development -- Chapter 4_Hobsbawm’s Question On Peasantry -- Chapter 5_On Economic Behavior of...

We begin with an economic model of science according to which signals concerning scientific reputation both serve to coordinate the plans of individuals in the scientific domain and ensure that the knowledge that emerges from interactions between scientists and the environment is reliable...

Sustainability is usually constructed in terms of environmental preservation or of replicating a certain output level. To challenge the status-quo, we argue that it is a matter of preserving a certain version of social order, which can only be replicated by a trickle-down pattern of conspicuous...

Dass unsere Welt sich gegenwärtig rasant verändert, weiß inzwischen jeder. Doch wie reagieren wir darauf? Die einen feiern die digitale Zukunft mit erschreckender Naivität und erwarten die Veränderungen wie das Wetter. Die Politik scheint den großen Umbruch nicht ernst zu nehmen. Sie...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with...

"History has proved that communism failed at many levels during the first global competition between the capitalist and socialist camps during the Cold War. As a result, the socialist camp was dissolved. China is one of the few communist countries to survive in the twenty-first century. The...

Introduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms / Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young -- Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories -- From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City / Christina Schwenkel -- From ABC to...

1. Macroeconomics as Systems Theory: Setting the Stage -- 2. Models of Social Order: Mechanical vs. Creative -- 3. Structures of Production and Properties of Social Order -- 4. Diachronic Action within an Ecology of Plans -- 5. Kaleidic Economies and Internally Generated Change -- 6. Entangled...

"In this book, Das presents a class-based perspective on the economic and political situation in contemporary India in a globalizing world. It deals with the specificities of India's capitalism and neoliberalism, as well as poverty/inequality, geographically uneven development, technological...

Verlagsinfo: Mit dem Weltbestseller "Das Kapital im 21.Jahrhundert" hat Thomas Piketty eines der wichtigsten Bücher unserer Zeit geschrieben. Jetzt legt er mit einem gewaltigen Werk nach: Kapital und Ideologie ist eine so noch niemals geschriebene Globalgeschichte der sozialen Ungleichheit und...

"This book is about promoting corporate responsibility in its original meaning: businesses should have a positive impact on society, and society should not only be a lever of profit making. When we treat social responsibility as an external function of the core business, we are exposed to the...

The economy and society of Tajikistan depends strongly on agriculture. Approximately three-quarters of the Tajik population live in rural areas. The agricultural sector generates about one fifth of total GDP and provides 55 per cent of employment (Akramov and Shreedhar, 2012). However, this does...

While the role of illegal markets in contemporary inner-state wars has drawn considerable attention from both researchers and policy makers, very little is known about the fate of these "war economies" after the end of violent conflict. This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of the...

Uncertainty is endemic to innovative economies and complex societies, but policymakers underestimate how damaging this is for many of their guiding assumptions. In particular, the discourse of best practice, "global solutions for global problems," and regulatory harmonization becomes...

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A historical perspective on the hijacking of business responsibility towards society; 1.1 What does hijacking consist of in managerial studies?; The...

The space and time of capitalist crisis and transition -- Operations of capital -- Capital, state, empire -- Extraction, logistics, finance -- Vistas of struggle -- The state of capitalist globalization