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Capitalism Reconnected: Toward a Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative Market Economy in Europe book cover

1st Edition

Capitalism Reconnected Toward a Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative Market Economy in Europe

By Jan Peter Balkenende, Govert Buijs Copyright 2024
400 Pages
by Routledge

Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations. An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consider... Read more
Part I: Europe’s Present Condition: A Diagnosis, 1. Introduction: From the Challenge of 2015 to the Shock of 2022, 2. Europe’s 250-Year Project…, 3. Triumphant Capitalism: Bold Assumptions of an Overconfident Age, 4. Europe’s Confusion and Reorientation, Part II: Europe’s Mission: Developing Responsible Capitalism, 5. The First Pillar of Renewal: Europe’s Ideals, 6. The Second Pillar of Renewal: Inspiration from Revaluing Europe’s Story, 7. The Third Pillar of Renewal: Ideas about Economics, 8. The Fourth Pillar of Renewal: Indicators and the New Art of Measurement, 9. The Fifth Pillar of Renewal: Institutions and the Multiactor Approach, 10. The Flying Wheel of Responsible Innovation (A): the ‘Makers’ of a New Economy (Business, Finance, Consumers), 11. The Flying Wheel of Responsible Innovation (B): the ‘Embedders’ of a New Economy (Government, Nature, Community, Civil Society), 12. The Flying Wheel of Responsible Innovation (C): the ‘Critical Innovators’ of a New Economy (Media, Research and Education, Imaginative Reflection), Part III: Europe’s New Position: Global Player for the Common Good, 13. A New World Order is Emerging, 14. Europe’s Contribution in Tomorrow’s World, 15. In Conclusion: Challenges and Recommendations for a Rejuvenated Europe, EPILOGUE: Towards an Economics of Hope

Biography

Jan Peter Balkenende is Minister of State and was from 2002 to 2010 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He is now External Senior Advisor to EY and involved in Corporate Responsibility, Chair of the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, and of the Noaber Foundation, Associate Partner at Hague Corporate Affairs, Member of the Club de Madrid, and Professor Emeritus at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Govert Buijs is a political philosopher and currently holds the Goldschmeding research chair ‘Societal and Economic Renewal’ at the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He recently supervised an interdisciplinary Templeton Research project on Markets and Morality, a collaboration between the universities of Amsterdam-VU, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, and Tilburg.

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