"An uplifting and unified vision of a new, egalitarian liberalism, and a bold practical program for how we can reinvigorate democracy and transform capitalism-by a brilliant and charismatic young philosopher/economist."

Nach westlicher Überzeugung geht das Individuum der Gemeinschaft voraus und nutzt Letztere lediglich zum eigenen Vorteil, um jene Güter produzieren zu können, die es benötigt – woraus dann eine progressive Ökonomie entstehe. Die Geschichte des Robinson Crusoe veranschaulicht diese...

Friedrich Hayek was a fervent advocate of the methodological specificity of the social sciences. However, given his contact with Karl Popper, several historians and philosophers have characterised his final position as Popperian, that is, a position that would have accepted the unity of the...

IntroductionGoal and Purpose of this StudyScope and Method of this StudyPlan of this Study1: The Origins of Evolutionary Social TheoryIntroductionNatural Philosophy and the Newtonian World ViewCivil, or Moral PhilosophyPhilosophical History and Political Economy in the Scottish and French...

A pragmatic social science offers a media res in relation to hermeneutical and critical theoretical models of social scientific inquiry that is more than the sum of these parts, methodologically speaking, because pragmatism wants to draw as well on other methods in social science, such as...

"Law is to society as gravity is to the solar system, it is the invisible force that holds it together and keeps it operating smoothly and productively. Law enhances social cooperation, facilitates trade, and extends the market. In these ways, law functions like Adams Smith's invisible hand,...

Avons-nous oublié André Gorz, fondateur de l'écologie politique ? 50 ans après les débuts de ce courant de pensée, le co-fondateur du journal L'Obs nous livre une doctrine des plus actuelles. Sur la question du travail, tout d'abord, à propos de laquelle il aura anticipé l'automatisation...

On the Scalability of Cooperative Structures -- Why Profit Is Not the Problem -- Egalitarianism and Status Hierarchy -- A Defence of Stigmatization -- A Unified Theory of Border Control and Reasonable Accommodation -- Two Dilemmas for U.S. Race Relations.

Verlagsinfo: "Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek's erudite arguments in support of individualism and the market...

"Auf der Grundlage seiner Sozialphilosophie des kommunikativen Textes entwickelt Kurt Röttgers hier die Modalität der Wirtschaftsphilosophie der monetären Textualität. Die Sozialphilosophie allgemein stellt das Soziale als solches in den Mittelpunkt, d.h. einen Zwischenraum, der ein Gewebe...

Accounting scandals and their severe consequences shed light on the ambiguity of accounting. This paper attempts to explore philosophical roots of accounting in an attempt to remove, or at least mitigate, this ambiguity. The study employs Searle's social construction framework (1995) as an...

"In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition, Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Rarely directly invoked, transition between different societies appears as an imminent social reality, and a useful conceptual tool for critical...

Introduction: What is the Neoliberal Imagination? -- Liberalism, Enlightenment, and Bourgeois Society -- Capitalism and the Progress of the World (1840-1918) -- Capital and the 'Natural History of Destruction' (1918-48) -- Consumption, Individualism, and Mass Society (1950-79) -- Neoliberalism...

Machine generated contents note:pt. IThe Challenge --1.Unintended Consequences Of Economics As A Science --2.The Narrative Of Success In Capitalism, And Its Failures --pt. IIWhat Is a Good Life? --3.Pleasure, Joy, Satisfaction, Purpose: Refining Our Quest For Happiness --4.Sustainable Hedonism...

"Recent attempts to revitalize Hegel's social and political philosophy have tended to be doubly constrained: firstly, by their focus on Hegel's Philosophy of Right ; and secondly, by their broadly liberal interpretive framework. Challenging that trend, Arash Abazari shows that the locus of...

"This book discusses Ambedkar's engagements with the issues of social justice, economic development, and caste enclosures. It highlights his significant contributions in the field of trade, public finance and monetary economics, Indian agriculture, education, among others, and examines their...

The culture in the Ostroms : institutions, rules, and relational reality / Mili Kalia -- Social services as impure public goods : Ostromian lessons for their provision in contemporary welfare states / Roland Fritz -- Polycentric party governance : competition, federalism, and the production of...

Introduction : getting in -- Winners and losers -- "Great because good" : a brief moral history of merit -- The rhetoric of rising -- Credentialism : the last acceptable prejudice -- Success ethics -- The sorting machine -- Recognizing work -- Conclusion.

The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has been consistently challenged. To understand the current state of affairs,...

Introduction / Angela Condello -- Money : ontology and deception / John R. Searle -- The color of money / Maurizio Ferraris -- Socio-legal reality in the making : money as a paradigm / Angela Condello -- Conclusion / Angela Condello.

List of figures -- List of tables. Part 1 Introducing evolving work: employing self and community : Centring: releasing GENE-IUS: integrity at work. Part 2 South: employing the community : Chinyika: grounding local people: communal identity to communal upskilling -- Civil economy: gift...