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

ISBN-13: 9780415651752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

Wolfram Elsner; Pietro Frigato; Paolo Ramazzotti

Opis

Current analyses of the global capitalist market economy are overdue to be undertaken making use of the powerful analytic frame of Karl William Kapp's open systems economics. 'Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism' examines this approach from the theoretical, conceptual, empirical, policy and case study levels.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti