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Money Creation: The Role of Trust for Public Happiness and Sustainable Growth

Genovese, Nicola; Spada, Maria Grazia La - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2014) February

The principal topic of this article is the creation of money in primitive populations at the beginning of economic activity. This phenomenon was determined thanks to a particular social environment where interpersonal trust together with reciprocity and moral principles were prevalent. No other...

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The No TAV Entrepreneurs’ Transition Towards a Sustainable Solidarity Economy : Pragmatic Analysis of a Social Innovation Process

Soubirou, Marina - 2018

Whilst a global transition towards sustainability appears to be a pressing challenge, several surveys have shown that sustainable principles and values seem to emerge on a global scale. Various social movements have laid claim to such a transition. An example of these movements is the No TAV...

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Sustaining Business Excellence

Crowther, David; Aras, Guler - 2011

Many concepts have appeared fashionable as a process of business management and the latest of these is connected to sustainability. Often these concepts are merely refinements of other concepts but are presented as the answer to managing a business. We argue in this paper that these concepts do...

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Alternative Indicators to GDP: Values behind Numbers. Adjusted Net Savings in Question

THIRY, Geraldine; CASSIERS, Isabelle - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

After sixty years of predominance in the western countries, both the objective of economic growth and its core measure, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), have been questioned. It no longer seems consistent to maintain growth as a societal goal and to keep GDP as the major reference for...

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Trust as a Key Variable of Sustainable Development and Public Happiness: A Historical and Theoretical Example Regarding the Creation of Money

Genovese, Nicola; Spada, Maria Grazia La - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

This article purports to trace the origin of money on the basis of factors in interpersonal relationships, affecting a … account these factors. The hypothesis expounded in the paper is that these values underlaid the beginning of economic activity … paper it is also hypothesized that the creation of money is one of the basic factors in the progress of economic and social …

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Human behaviour and adequacy of satisfiers in the light of sustainable development

Walter, Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper discusses the possibility of behavioural change in accordance with the objectives of sustainable development considering the human behaviour through the needs. Using the concepts of fundamental human needs and satisfiers of Manfred Max-Neef, the attempt was made to determine the...

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Auf dem Weg zur weltanschaulichen Bekenntnisschule : das wirtschaftspolitische Leitbild der Hochschule Pforzheim

Maurer, Rainer - 2015

Dieses Diskussionspapier beleuchtet die PRME-Verpflichtung der Hochschule Pforzheim und die daraus resultierenden Probleme (Abschnitt 2) aus vier Perspektiven: der erkenntnistheoretischen (Abschnitt 3), der erfahrungswissenschaftlichen (Abschnitt 4), der juristischen (Abschnitt 5) und einer...

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Elements for an Interpretation of the Report between Culture and Civilization

CRUCERU, Dan - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 60 (2012) 4, pp. 290-294

The attempt itself to give a rigorous interpretation to the concept of culture is widely met and inexorable for a … of the concept of culture is necessary, first because the theory on culture starts from a dialogue with another … philosophical acceptations. In the second row, because the attempt to delimit the concept of culture, assumes a proper methodology …

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The role of culture in the sustainable development of voivodships in Poland

Krzyminiewska, Grażyna; Pondel, Hanna - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1017-1034

The purpose of the study is an attempt to assess the importance of culture for the sustainable development of Polish …

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The role of culture in the sustainable development of voivodships in Poland

Krzyminiewska, Grażyna; Pondel, Hanna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1017-1034

The purpose of the study is an attempt to assess the importance of culture for the sustainable development of Polish …

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