Alternative perspectives of a good society
By: edited by John Marangos
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230114456
Subjects: Utopias; Social aspects; Political aspects; Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to alternative perspectives of a good society / John Marangos; title: Marx and Engels' vision of building a good society / Al Campbell; title: Gendered work in a "good society"-a paradox to care about / Karin Schönpflug; title: Does the field of comparative economic systems care about the good society? A feminist angle on the need for institutional analysis in CES / Lynn S. Duggan and Barbara E. Hopkins; title: The development ethics perspective of a good society / John Marangos and Nikos Astroulakis; title: Demystifying finance : how to understand financialization and think of strategies for a good society / Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, John Milios and Spyros Lapatsioras; title: Labor standards, gender and decent work in newly industrialized countries : promoting the good society / Alex DeRuyter ... [et al.]; title: A socially-sensitive developmental state : key economic and politico-institutional aspects / Nikolaos Karagiannis and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi; title: Obesity, evolutionary psychology and the good society / Steven Pressman; title: Questions for a good society : concluding thoughts / Ellen Mutari.