1. The path of sustainability -- 2. The failure of authority and altruism -- 3. The complexity of sustainable development -- 4. Consuming unhappiness -- 5. Happiness, well-being, and sustainability -- 6. Needs and wants -- 7. Leveraging wants -- 8. Changing the system paradigm -- 9. Adapting to...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The cultural constitution of political economy -- chapter 2 The savage Smith and the temporal walls of capitalism -- chapter 3 Necro-economics and Steuart’s geocultural political economy -- chapter 4 Capitalism’s wounds: Ferguson’s international political...

1. Introduction -- 2. Interlinking markets, relational contracts and economic transition -- 3. Markets, contracts and economic growth -- 4. Interlinked contracts and development : where do we stand? -- 5. Unraveling the Chinese miracle : a perspective of interlinked relational contracts -- 6....

1. Neoliberal explanations of the financial crisis -- 2. Keynesian explanations of the financial crisis -- 3. Specious theories of mainstream economics -- 4. Evolution and characteristics of finance capital : a new phase, not just another cycle -- 5. Marxian views of financial crises -- 6. Debt...

1. Corporate governance, employment systems and workplace partnerships in Australia -- 2. Law and regulatory style in Australian corporate governance and employment systems -- 3. Corporate governance and the management of labour : contemporary business practices in ten Australian companies -- 4....

1. Institutions, change, and diversity / Geoffrey T. Wood and Christel Lane -- 2. A new epoch but still diversity within and between capitalisms : China in comparative perspective / Robert Boyer -- 3. Institutional change and organizational diversity in Japan / Mari Sako and Masahiro Kotosaka --...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the international phenomenon of enlightened paternalist capitalism and social engineering in the golden age of capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Erik de Gier shows how utopian socialist, religious, and craft-based...