Format:
1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
ISBN:
9789086865888
Series Statement:
Mansholt Publication Series v.1
Content:
This book contains ideas to develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary views on economy and society. It aims to disseminate heterodox ideas on various subjects related to economics and global society.The book is organised in six parts. Part 1 contains the key lectures of Backhaus on the concept of state sciences and of Klamer on the importance of culture for economics. Parts 2- 6 contain successively contributions in the areas of economic paradigms and theories, population and society, corporate issues, environment, and international relations. Examples of the content are:- the changes of family life cycles due to the rise of non-traditional households;- subjective and objective inflation rates after the introduction of the Euro;- the economics of genetic engineering;- the contribution of foreign direct investment to the economic development of host countries;- the inaccuracy of economic models applied in places characterized by extreme income disparities;- the improvement of political and corporate governance;- evolutionary thinking and emission trading;- freedom and order in the European Union;- the reform of social policy in Europe.The book provides interesting creative multi-disciplinary ideas with respect to various topical issues concerning the contemporary global society. It is highly recommended for economists and social scientists in search of broad views on social science and society
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- ISINI - the inter- and transdisciplinary project of a great thinker: Anghel Rugina -- Introduction -- The Sciences of State as a Research Paradigm -- Economics of culture -- Some aspects of professor Anghel Rugina's proposal to a money-commodity -- Money, freedom and order in the European Union -- Another Marxism: a delimitation of Analytical Marxism -- Taxes and elections -- Why prohibit or promote reproductive cloning and genetic engineering? The myth of biodiversity and of genetic hierarchy -- Exploring new methods of helping the world's orphans -- Poverty, poverty alleviation, and capitalism in global and historical perspective: modeling a relationship between inequality and market maladjustment -- Families and changing life cycles -- Perceived inflation and actual price changes in The Netherlands -- Social policy and entitlements: a proposal for reform -- Empowering ultimate owners as a means to improve corporate governance -- Vulnerability of a high-trust society: the collapse of Enron -- The effect of changes in ownership structure on performance: evidence from the building societies' demutualization in the UK -- The incremental contribution of financial reporting on the internet to business reporting -- An evolutionary defense of emissions trading -- Projecting costs of emission reduction -- Environmental issues in APEC: the case of the Latin American economies -- Adaptation to environmental standards in foreign trade of the Central and Eastern European Countries -- Modelling environmental cooperation on reciprocal emission reduction via virtual market system -- Bilateral free trade agreement in the 21st Century: the case of Thailand in late 1990s -- The effects of the free trade arrangement on social welfare and urban employment -- Outward foreign direct investment: is it a good thing?
Content:
Financial sector reforms and impact of monetary policy shocks in Nigeria: an implication of vector autoregressive model -- Index of subjects -- Index of persons
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789076998961
Additional Edition:
Print version Meijer, G Heterodox views on economics and the economy of the global society Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers,c2006 ISBN 9789076998961
Language:
English
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
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