Dilemmas of Social Democracies - Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World

Informationen zum Autor Howard Richards was born in Pasadena, California, in 1938. He holds a doctorate in education with mention in moral education from the University of Toronto, a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a law degree from Stanford and an advanced certificate in education (with honours) from Oxford. As an undergraduate at Yale, he won the New York Yale Club prize for outstanding scholarship. Klappentext The Dilemmas of Social Democracies seeks to advance the eradication of poverty and the ethical construction of social democracy and sustainable peace. Howard Richards and Joanna Swanger argue that the reason that capitalism resists transformation and that social democracy is so hard to achieve is because of the philosophical and institutional underpinnings_the constitutive rules_of capitalism; the book therefore explores the historical origins of these rules, their implications for blocking progress toward social justice, and how they can be improved. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 On Cooperation and Sharing Chapter 2 Making Invisible Causes Visible Chapter 3 The Drama of Spanish Socialism: Tragedy, Farce, or Conceptual Error? (Part 1) Chapter 4 The Drama of Spanish Socialism: Tragedy, Farce, or Conceptual Error? (Part 2) Chapter 5 A Modest Hypothesis Concerning Swedish Social Democracy Chapter 6 Sweden's Rehn-Meidner Model: Too Good to be True, or, The Stumbling Blocks of Freedom and Property Chapter 7 The Revenge of the Iron Law of Wages Chapter 8 Hjalmar Branting's Uppfostran Chapter 9 Karl Popper's Vienna, or, The Straitjacket of Mainstream Social Science Chapter 10 Power and Principle in South Africa Chapter 11 Islam and Economic Rationality in Indonesia Chapter 12 The Stones that the Builders Rejected Chapter 13 Middle-Class Values Chapter 14 The Venezuela That Might Have Been Chapter 15 Social Democracy on a World Scale: The World Bank and the Logic of Love

Product details

• Authors: Howard Richards, Howard Swanger Richards, Richards Howard, Joanna Swanger
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2008
• EAN: 9780739129272
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2927-2
• No. of pages: 446
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy, Social welfare & social services, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies