"A highly reasonable, lightly fun introduction to thinking like an economist. When economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or pandemics, they do so in an impersonal, detached way: what's the most low-cost way to maximize good and minimize bad? These trade-offs constitute...

Marriage is often compared to a "contract." The contract analogy appears to be an argument about the law of marriage based on a settled concept called "contract." But it is in fact an assertion of a contested view of "contract": that legitimate obligation must derive from consent. This focus on...

PART I: Introduction -- 1. The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation: Introduction -- PART II: Entrepreneurs -- 2. Innovations in Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Biofuel Production: The Case of Tanzanian Outgrowers Cultivating Jatropha for the Global Biofuel Chain -- 3. Social...

Nutzen und Gemeinwohl -- Kollektiventscheidungen, Demokratie und Gemeinwohl -- Wohlfahrtsfunktionen und ökonomische Vorstellungen von Gerechtigkeit -- Wohlfahrtsmessung -- Nachhaltigkeit und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung -- Alternative Wirtschaftsmodelle.

Chapter 1: Polar visions of the Economy -- Chapter 2: Critiques of Mainstream Economic Doctrines -- Chapter 3: Critiques of the Current State of Islamic Economics -- Chapter 4: Ethics of Iqtisaad -- Chapter 5: Islamic Perspectives on the Cycle of Civilization and Problem of Knowledge -- Chapter...

Der Leiter eines gewerkschaftsnahen wissenschaftlichen Instituts analysiert die Wirtschaftskrise vor dem Hintergrund wachsender sozialer Ungleichheit und formuliert Lösungsvorschläge für die deutsche und europäische Wirtschaftspolitik. (Jürgen Plieninger)