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More and more people believe that there must be a path to a good life beyond growth. But how do the economic crisis and the vision of a post-growth-society change the debate about the good life? Can we identify conditions for a good life in a society that can no longer guarantee a rising income for everybody? In this volume, the complex relations between the crisis of the growth paradigm and conceptions of the good life are addressed by researchers from sociology, philosophy, economics, psychology and political science. Read together, these essays will have a major impact on the debates...

Nothing affects the modern economy (and society) more than decisions made in the market place, especially, but not only, decisions made by consumers. Although it is not startling to suggest that decisions made in production are affected by choices consumers make, consumers have long been viewed, not only by academic economists, as individual, isolated rational actors that make or refrain from purchases purely on the basis of narrow financial considerations. Markets are not and never were morally neutral. Market relations have always had an often taken-for-granted moral underpinning. The...

Das vorliegende Buch beschaftigt sich mit dem Management von Risiken bei offentlichen Infrastrukturinvestitionen, insbesondere bei offentlich-privaten Partnerschaften (Public Private Partnerships/PPPs). Bestehende Verfahren werden auf den Prufstand gestellt und konkrete praktische Beispiele fur Verfahrensinnovationen gegeben. Dem Leser wird die Fahigkeit vermittelt, mittels eines ganzen Bundels alternativer Verfahren die Risikoidentifikation und -bewertung und das Risikomanagement im Investitionsprozess durchzufuhren. Neu sind dabei die Betrachtung des gesamten Lebenszyklus der...

Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations. Whereas economists pride themselves on reaching out to social theory at-large, sociologists criticize the economization of the social fabric. The concept of social capital serves as a touchstone for the study of the role of the economy in modern societies. It serves as a breach for expanding the reach of economic categories, yet it also yields the opportunity for questioning and transforming economic premises in the light of social theory and philosophy. Exploring the concept of social capital in...