1st Edition

Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism Essays Inspired by Karl William Kapp's Theory of Social Costs

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

The Social Costs approach to the globalised capitalist market economy has gained new relevance in recent years. The present situation is one of widespread and increasing deterioration of the social, cultural, democratic, and environmental frameworks of advanced capitalist market societies. This deterioration is indicated by the threats of unemployment, precarious working conditions and increasing... Read more

Introduction  1. Freedom To Plan: On Kapp’s Institutional Outlook Michele Cangiani  2. Political Democracy And Social Costs: Reading K.W. Kapp’s ‘Political Economy’ Today Regine Heidenreich  3. Social Costs, Social Rights and the Limits of Free Market Capitalism: A Re-Reading Of Kapp Maurizio Franzini  4. Increasing Complexity in the ‘New’ Economy and Coordination Requirements Beyond the ‘Market’: Blockages And Lock-Ins as Social Costs and a New Governance to Mitigate Them Wolfram Elsner  5. Policy For Social Costs: Kapp V. Neoclassical Economics James A. Swaney 6. Improved Allocation Through Environmental Taxes? Theory And Reality: The Example Of Germany Gustav M. Obermair and Lorenz Jarass  7. Unemployment as a Social Cost Paolo Ramazzotti and Marco Rangone  8. Social Costs And Human Health: Kapp’s Approach and its Growing Relevance Today Pietro Frigato  9. Impact of Economic and Labour Market Policy on Health: Health Costs of the ‘Transition Process’ in Central and Eastern Europe Richard Peter and Johannes Siegrist

Biography

Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti