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Social Innovation and Business in Taiwan

Han, I - 2016

Based on five major research cases observed in Taiwan, this book introduces the core concept of a social innovation system to show how the common good can be established, adapted and diffused across communities, societies and national boundaries

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Suspicions of Markets : Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century

Rutherford, Donald - 2016

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The case for markets -- Chapter 3: The start of the criticism: Aristotle …

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Rediscovering Social Economics : Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm

Johnson, Roger D. - 2017

This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources. Approaching the problem through a history of economic thought,...

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Economics and Its Enemies : Two Centuries of Anti-Economics

Coleman, William - 2002

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers....

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A Critical History of Economics

Mills, John - 2002

John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed. He argues that the main goal of economics ought to be to show how to achieve a combination of economic growth, full employment, low inflation, avoidance of extreme poverty and sustainability. That it has failed to do so is...

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The Origins of Universal Grants : An Anthology of Historical Writings on Basic Capital and Basic Income

Cunliffe, John (ed.); Erreygers, Guido (ed.) - 2004

Should all young adults receive a capital grant? Should all individuals be given a lifetime regular income? Would either form of payment be just or unjust? These questions figure prominently in recent social philosophy and policy discussions on 'stakeholding' and 'basic income'. Both types of...

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Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit: An Essay on Greed, Hope, and Loss

Levine, David K. - 2013

embodies this hope, it has become desire's object. In his study of capitalism, Levine explores the meaning of capital as a … especially important in light of the stubborn insistence on the part of its critics that capitalism exists to serve the material … the capitalist system as a whole. And in that sense, this hope is the spirit of capitalism. To develop this theme, Levine …

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Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Models : The Case of India

Agrawal, Anirudh (ed.); Kumar, Payal (ed.) - 2018

Part I. Theoretical Contextualization -- 1. Embedding Diversity in Social Entrepreneurial Research: India’s Learning Laboratories; Shambu Prasad and Joseph Satish V -- 2. Education Conversations: Situating Social Enterprise in India’s Education Discourse; Isabel Salovaara -- 3. Foremost...

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B Corp Entrepreneurs : Analysing the Motivations and Values behind Running a Social Business

Roth, Florentine Mariele Sophie; Winkler, Ingo - 2018

Highlighting the motivations of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, this book explores the phenomenon behind for-profit organisations that are committed to social and ecological sustainability as well as human welfare. By examining the personal and social drivers of businesses which are not solely...

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Leading a Surgical Revolution : The AO Foundation – Social Entrepreneurs in the Treatment of Bone Trauma

Jeannet, Jean-Pierre - 2019

This book describes the 60-year history of the AO Foundation and its impact on the treatment of bone trauma. Originally founded by a group of Swiss surgeons, the AO has since established its osteosynthesis treatment approach to trauma, using surgery and implants, as the global standard. The AO...

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