Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism - Essays Inspired By Karl William Kapp''s Theory of Social Costs

Informationen zum Autor Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti Klappentext Mainstream economics deals with social costs as a market failure. Within the complex open-systems approach of evolutionary economics! K W Kapp derived the conception of market-based capitalist economizing as a generation of social cost. This book analyzes these ideas. Zusammenfassung Taking a theoretical, conceptual and empirical approach and using real-life case studies, Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism examines current analyses of the global capitalist market economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Freedom to Plan: On Kapp’s Institutional Outlook 2. Political Democracy and Social Costs: Reading K.W. Kapp’s ‘Political Economy’ Today 3. Social Costs, Social Rights and the Limits of Free Market Capitalism: A Re-reading of Kapp 4. Increasing Complexity in the ‘New’ Economy and Coordination Requirements beyond the ‘Market’: Blockages and Lock-ins as Social Costs and a New Governance to Mitigate Them 5. Policy for Social Costs: Kapp V. Neoclassical Economics 6. Improved Allocation through Environmental Taxes?: Theory and Reality: The Example of Germany 7. Unemployment as a Social Cost 8. Social Costs and Human Health: Kapp’s Approach and its Growing Relevance Today 9. Impact of Economic and Labour Market Policy on Health: Health Costs of the ‘Transition Process’ in Central and Eastern Europe

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• Authors: Wolfram Elsner, Wolfram (Universitat Bremen Elsner, Wolfram Frigato Elsner, Elsner Wolfram, ELSNER WOLFRAM FRIGATO PIETRO RA, Elsner/Ramazzot, Pietro Frigato, Pietro (University of Trento Frigato, Frigato Pietro, Paolo Ramazzotti, Paolo (University of Marcerata Ramazzotti, Ramazzotti Paolo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2006
• EAN: 9780415413510
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41351-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy; Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Economic theory and philosophy