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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.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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