Doing Care and Doing Economy: On the Ecology of Social and Economic Life

ISBN-13: 9783658380700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Wolf Rainer Wendt

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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

Blurb

A book on the need for a caring economy in the global crisis.

In this situation, doing care and doing economy are mutually dependent. The connection that is described is a multifaceted and multi-layered one. It concerns social care, state action and the responsibility of companies. All actors are involved in doing care and doing economy within an ecological framework for a development that is beneficial to life both locally and globally.

 

The author

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

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.