Rethinking the Market Economy - New Challenges, New Ideas, New Opportunities

This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means. It adopts an industrial economic approach, whilst proposing a road map leading to the adoption of a 'societal market economy' model as an appealing and politically acceptable third-way between capitalism and socialism.

List of contents

1. The Market Economy System in Question 2. A Stabilized and Regulated Financial Market 3. A Sustainable Economy 4. A Green Economy 5. An Innovative Economy 6. A Global and Local Economy 7. A Knowledge-based Economy 8. A Digital and Networking Economy 9. A Distributed and Collaborative Economy 10. A Social Economy 11. A Humanistic Market Economy 12. Happiness and Well-being 13. A State-led Economy 14. Toward a Societal Market Economy

About the author

Jean-Jacques is also Professor Emeritus at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and is joint editor in chief of the European Business Forum (EBF). A specialist in strategic marketing, Lambin works as an analyst and consultant on problems of redeployment and restructuring of enterprises facing challenges due to the internationalisation of markets and market-driven management.

Summary

This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means. It adopts an industrial economic approach, whilst proposing a road map leading to the adoption of a 'societal market economy' model as an appealing and politically acceptable third-way between capitalism and socialism.

Product details

• Authors: J Lambin, J. Lambin
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349483457
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48345-7
• No. of pages: 299
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 18 mm x 219 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Illustrations: XII, 299 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Management, B, Economic Sociology, Leadership, Business Strategy/Leadership, macroeconomics, Business & management, International business, Innovation/Technology Management, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, business strategy, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Research & development management, Monetary Economics, Industrial Management, Development Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, International business enterprises, Business Strategy and Leadership, Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Innovation and Technology Management