"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...

"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...

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.

"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 / 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...

The world of the senior manager -- Management as a common sense construct -- Studies in the practicalities of executive management -- Representations and realities -- Representations without metaphysics -- Intersubjectivity and the arts of financial management -- The contingencies of due process...

Introduction / Paul Dragos Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, Stefanie Haeffele -- Explorations and extensions -- Rawls, Buchanan, and the search for a better social contract / Brian Kogelmann -- Horses & carts and justice & rules : getting the order right / Benjamin Johnson -- The problem of...

Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the world's great essayists guides us through the rich commentary...

Deckblatt -- Titelseite -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Was Sie zu Beginn wissen sollten -- 1. Gerechtigkeit ist normativ -- 1.1 Analyse und Kritik -- 2. Ist Gleichheit gerecht? -- 3. Gleichheitstheorien: Marxismus und Sozialismus -- 3.1 Der historische Materialismus -- 3.2 Bewusstsein und...

This book employs a variety of economic and philosophical methodologies in order to discover the philosophical implications of creative destruction, competition regulation, and the role that businesses or market agents play. Instead of discussing these relations in a purely abstract manner,...

Seit einigen Jahren erleben wir in Europa und insbesondere in Frankreich eine Verschiebung der Darstellungen der sozialen Frage. Phänomenologisch betrachtet lassen die Begriffe 'Ausbeutung' oder 'Unterdrückung', die einen Klassengegner identifizieren, Raum für Ausdrücke, die von einem...

Importance of effective communication can hardly be ignored in any sphere of life. This is achieved through various means. One such instrument is Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) which has now taken roots in various aspects of learning and education. Its potential spans education and learning,...

Introduction / Mikolaj Dymek -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Internal organisational perspectives -- Roleplaying games at work : about management, gamification and effectiveness / Emmanuelle Savignac -- Feeding the red critter : the gamification of project management software /...

John Rawls' politischer Liberalismus -- James Buchanans konstitutionelle Ökonomik -- Mancur Olsons Logik kollektiven Handelns -- Gary S. Beckers ökonomischer Imperialismus -- Karl Poppers kritischer Rationalismus -- Ronald Coase' Transaktionskosten-Ansatz -- Oliver Williamsons...

Das philosophische Enfant terrible Harry G. Frankfurt ist zurück, und zwar mit einem Paukenschlag. Nach seinem Welterfolg Bullshit widmet er sich in bewährt streitbarer Manier einer hochaktuellen Debatte: ökonomische Ungleichheit. Während man sich allenthalben einig ist, dass die ungleiche...

"Economists increasingly recognise that engagement with social ontology - the study of the basic subject matter and constitution of social reality - can facilitate more relevant analysis. This growing recognition amongst economists of the importance of social ontology is due very considerably to...

Heroic leadership: authority as power -- Rational leadership: arguing to authority -- Cynicism: confronting managerial leadership -- Stoicism: managing adversity -- Religious leadership: two faces of authority -- Political leadership: contractual authority -- German romanticism: the power of the...