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At a time of crisis, the question of growth is naturally attracting a great amount of attention. Fundamental questions as to the type of growth that should be pursued, the means to achieve it and its implications are increasingly discussed in the literature. In this paper we examine the concept of growth in relation to (i) its theoretical aspects;...
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... These are the primary, secondary, tertiary, and possibly quaternary and quinary sectors. (β) With reference to Karl Marx and later Rosa Luxemburg, four departments can be distinguished: department 1 (production of the means of production), department 2 (production of consumables), department 3 (finances), and department 4 ("independent" services) (see, e.g., Herrmann 2014;Herrmann and Frangakis 2014). Furthermore we find (γ) the classification according to "producers"/"providers," namely, between the public, private, and voluntary sectors. ...
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A fundamental methodological problem is the relevance of an antagonism of capitalism. This needs to be classified in light of the developmental stage of the means of production: far too little attention is paid to the contradictory character of individualization and socialization. This brings us to Karl Polányi’s main argument of disembedding. He also deals with a shift from the socially integrated (and dependent) individual to the utilitarian market citizen. The French regulationist theory offers a major step toward understanding new forms of societal embedding linked to this “new personality.” It will also allow us to move beyond the misleading juxtaposition or dichotomization of individualization-socialization. Investigating five major tensions, it ventilates the possible meaning of the digital revolution and the challenges for monitoring development. The main aim of the article, however, is to bring the economy back in and to go beyond the traditional duality between economics and politics.
Keywords: change, development, economics and social science, economy and society, social quality, theory of regulation, work
The ‘Big Data Age’ is replacing the ‘Industrialization Age’. Understanding the current Corporate Social Responsibility requires at least a bit of historical clarification: it would be surely misleading to attribute any kind of entrepreneurial ‘social activity’ to the array of Corporate Social Responsibility. However, such review is introduced only briefly in order to classify certain activities as related to what may be called social responsibility, the emphasis exposing the corporation as actor. What, however, if we come to the conclusion that certain shifts in the economy lead—in some digitization industries—to withering away of forms of the classical corporation, being successively replaced by a new formation of which we cannot see clear, elusive contours. Are we moving towards revived arbitrary systems of socio-charitable controls or can we foster a model, which leans towards inherent publicness?
There is no end of the crisis in sight – this is also openly recognised by apologists of the system. Even more, the long nightmare of forcing Greece during the fist half of 2015 onto its knees, using banks instead of tanks shows both, the contempt for mankind by established superior powers when it comes to defending their interest in the Hobbesian war and the human tragedy that follows suit on the side of the victims, that, on to of their hardship have to bare being blamed for the atrocities.
Important is to develop a more detailed and radical analysis, allowing a change of the structures that are underlying the current situation. One point in question is that the European tragedy had been and is part of a global drama.
Looking at some central statements of major players, it will be shown that a central problem is not the analysis of key benchmarks, but the discussion of main paradigms as growth, nationality, statehood and the like which are by and large still taken as “eternal givens”. A radical shift is needed, aiming at a proactive re-interpretation of the future, taking issues of the mode of living and the environmental into account.
