ISBN:
9781137274731
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (288 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Perspectives from Social Economics
Series Statement:
Perspectives from Social Economics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century : Principles and Policies
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Management science
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society. Bob Williams Danièle Meulders Síle O'Dorchai Shann Turnbull Paula M. Cole Valerie K. Kepner Janet Spitz Edward J. O'Boyle Michael J. Murray Tom Walker K Maeve Powlick
Abstract:
Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Part I Education, Distribution, and Good Society; Chapter 1 Moral Education and the Good Society: An IMPACT for HBCUs; Chapter 2 What Does the Rising Tide Bring?; Chapter 3 Divided We Stand, United We Fall-A Good Society Needs an Individual Poverty Measure; Part II Sustainability, Ecology, and Good Society; Chapter 4 Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Prosperity; Chapter 5 Green Consumerism: A Path to Sustainability?; Chapter 6 Sustainability in a Good Society: Alternate Visions from Australia and the United States
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Economic Development, Employment, and Good SocietyChapter 7 Not Just Fun and Games: Reconceptualizing the Role of Young People in Economic Development; Chapter 8 The Making of a Good Society: Lowe's Instrumental Method and the Pursuit of Full Employment; Part IV Civic Institutions, Freedom, Time, and Good Society; Chapter 9 The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Good Society: The Case of Forsyth Futures, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA; Chapter 10 The Acting Person: Reconstructing Economic Agency around a Living, Breathing, Existential Actuality
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11 Time on the Ledger: Social Accounting for the Good SocietyList of Contributors; Index
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