The ideas of ‘predistribution’ and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal response to the problems of poverty, unemployment, economic insecurity, burgeoning socio-economic inequality, and economic instability, none of which the more familiar institutions of welfare state capitalism seem able effectively to solve. These social liberal proposals for institutional reform have, however, been rejected by ‘neo-classical’ liberals who have attempted to modernize and revitalize the traditional classical liberal case for a...
The ideas of ‘predistribution’ and the property-owning democracy have recently emerged as the central features of the progressive social liberal r...
This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber s work on the origins and institutional underpinnings of modern capitalism, and Joseph Schumpeter s thought on the mechanisms and functioning of the capitalist economy. Focusing on the lesser-known works of both figures, particularly in the case of Weber, whose writings on economics and economic history are frequently overlooked, the author contends that a combination of Schumpeter s and Weber s theoretical schemas, incorporating their many valuable insights, provides the basis of a...
This book provides the groundwork for a general theory of modern capitalism by reinterpreting Max Weber s work on the origins and institutional und...
Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral quality, but fraternity is also a political concept.
The French Revolution proclaimed an ethical and political ideal with its three principles: liberty, equality and fraternity. Since then, western political philosophy has got to great lengths to analyze the liberty and equality, but has ignored, and even disdained, the third part of the revolutionary triad: fraternity. Forgetting or underestimating fraternity as a political category is unjustifiable.
Political fraternity can help us to overcome some of the main problems...
Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral quality, but fraternity is also a political concept.
The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic disciplines and notions of Jewish assimilation and integration and demonstrates that the quest for Jewish assimilation is linked to and built into the conceptual foundations of modern social science disciplines.
Focusing on two influential "assimilated" Jewish...
The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts ...
This book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other social institutions and structures. This theory is called social transaction theory. Using the framework of the complex adaptive systems model, this transdisciplinary social theory proposes that society, culture and economy are emergent from social and environmental transaction and negotiation. Each transaction contains an element of negotiation. With each transaction, there is continual renegotiation, however small or large. Even if the result...
This book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other ...
With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists. In the context of an examination of Berger’s ongoing work on the social construction of reality, styles of consciousness, the role of science-based technology, pluralism, and other pertinent topics, the author also considers Berger’s unique and thoughtful approach to research and theorizing. Berger’s method of...
With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposi...
