Heterodox views on economics and the economy of the global society / edited by G. Meijer ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Mansholt publication series, v. 1
• Author: International Society for Intercommunication of New Ideas International Congress
• TeilnehmendeR: Meijer, G.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Mansholt publication series ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Contents; Preface; ISINI - the inter- and transdisciplinary project of a great thinker: Anghel Rugina; Introduction; The Sciences of State as a Research Paradigm; Economics of culture; Some aspects of professor Anghel Rugina's proposal to a money-commodity; Money, freedom and order in the European Union; Another Marxism: a delimitation of Analytical Marxism; Taxes and elections; Why prohibit or promote reproductive cloning and genetic engineering? The myth of biodiversity and of genetic hierarchy; Exploring new methods of helping the world's orphans

Poverty, poverty alleviation, and capitalism in global and historical perspective: modeling a relationship between inequality and market maladjustmentFamilies and changing life cycles; Perceived inflation and actual price changes in The Netherlands; Social policy and entitlements: a proposal for reform; Empowering ultimate owners as a means to improve corporate governance; Vulnerability of a high-trust society: the collapse of Enron; The effect of changes in ownership structure on performance: evidence from the building societies' demutualization in the UK

The incremental contribution of financial reporting on the internet to business reportingAn evolutionary defense of emissions trading; Projecting costs of emission reduction; Environmental issues in APEC: the case of the Latin American economies; Adaptation to environmental standards in foreign trade of the Central and Eastern European Countries; Modelling environmental cooperation on reciprocal emission reduction via virtual market system; Bilateral free trade agreement in the 21st Century: the case of Thailand in late 1990s

The effects of the free trade arrangement on social welfare and urban employmentOutward foreign direct investment: is it a good thing?; Financial sector reforms and impact of monetary policy shocks in Nigeria: an implication of vector autoregressive model; Index of subjects; Index of persons