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The pandemic within : policy making for a better world /
This book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic order. It shows how hegemony and complexity prevent societies from envisioning better practices and institutions and presents feasible solutions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- The Pandemic within: Policy Making for a Better World
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The pandemic within
- 2 At home in the world: overcoming the predicament of complexity and hegemony
- The human predicament
- Complexity and the defeat of optimism
- Hegemony as cognitive captivity
- The utopian method of social transformation
- 3 Ensuring a well-functioning public infrastructure
- The importance of strong public infrastructures
- The pragmatic relevance of utopian thinking
- 4 Housing is a public good, not a commodity
- The UK: housing as a frontier of rentier capitalism
- Vienna: a century of integrative housing policy
- Our vision: a housing guarantee
- 5 Redefining work and income
- The gradual destruction of the fair labour contract
- What is work?
- Promote cooperatives
- Broadening the notions of work and income
- The bread-and-butter model of universal basic income
- Universal basic income or job guarantee?
- 6 The return of good government
- The poisoned chalice of government
- The curious incapacitation of government
- Public administration in the age of privatised Keynesianism
- What are the prospects for successful administrative reform?
- 7 Real corporate responsibility
- Moving factories
- Corporate social responsibility
- Shareholder value and the rise of the giant transnational corporation ...
- ... and the concomitant decline of small and medium-sized businesses
- Civil society and economic life
- 8 Money as a public good
- Too big to comprehend?
- Where does money come from?
- The hidden order of the finance industry
- Money as a morality play
- How to get out of our financial mess
- Educating the public on money
- The public creation of money
- Setting up a system of democratically controlled credit allocation
- Impose capital controls
- 9 Living in the Anthropocene
- A new moonshot?
- Conceiving human survival
- Dealing green
- Gardening, not engineering
- Towards an ecological society
- No carbon economy
- Clean air, water and soil
- Job creation and economic development
- Social security
- Money
- 10 Towards an ecological society
- By way of a vision
- Associations and administration: the return of developmental democracy
- Reimagining society