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Social Costs Today : Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises.

This book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on allocative efficiency or income growth alone; it requires a more general approach, based on social costs....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elsner, Wolfram
Otros Autores: Frigato, Pietro, Ramazzotti, Paolo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social Costs Today Institutional analyses of the present crises; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Social costs today: institutional analyses of the present crises
  • an introduction; PART I Social costs: At the core of the capitalist economy; 1 Social costs and normative economics; 2 Institutions, rationality and social costs; 3 Social costs and the horizonal approach to ecologicaleconomics; 4 Planned obsolescence and the manufacture of doubt: on social costs and the evolutionary theory of the firm.
  • 5 The discourse on social costs: Kapp's 'impossibility thesis' vs. neoliberalismPART II Social costs of the present crises; 6 From the crisis of distribution to the distribution of the costs of the crisis: the case of Europe; 7 The financial crisis viewed through the theory of social costs; 8 In charge of themselves: the social costs of workfare policies in Europe; 9 The social costs of water commodification in developing countries; 10 The social costs of private elderly care; 11 Business bias as usual: the case of electromagnetic pollution; 12 A crisis of freedom; Index.