Doing care and doing economy - On the ecology of social and economic life

A book on the need to do economy in a caring way in the global crisis. In this situation, doing care and doing economy are mutually dependent. The context that is described is a multifaceted and complex one. It concerns social care, state action and the responsibility of companies. All actors are involved in caring and managing within an ecological framework for a development that is beneficial to life both locally and globally.

List of contents

Doing care inside and doing economy outside?- Extensions of care.- Socially and economically, the provision of livelihood makes the beginning.- Economy "started at home", politically and globally considered.- The caring and economic state.- Business and the caring of companies.- Care supply in its structures and processes.- Solidary caring and socially doing economy.- Thriving development: well-being under ecological precepts.

About the author

Professor Dr. Wolf Rainer Wendt teaches at the Faculty of Social Work at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Wolf Rainer Wendt
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Original title: Sorgen und wirtschaften
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2022
• EAN: 9783658380700
• ISBN: 978-3-658-38070-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 9 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: X, 162 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories