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Social costs and public action in modern capitalism [electronic resource] : essays inspired by Karl William Kapp's theory of social costs / edited by Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato and Paolo Ramazzotti.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.Description: x, 228 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203966327
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  • Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)
Contents:
Freedom to plan : on Kapp's institutional outlook / Michele Cangiani -- Political democracy and social costs : reading K.W. Kapp's "Political economy" today / Regine Heidenreich -- Social costs, social rights and the limits of free market capitalism : a re-reading of Kapp / Maurizio Franzini -- Increasing complexity in the "new" economy and coordination requirements beyond the "market" : blockages and lock-ins as social costs, and a new governance to mitigate them / Wolfram Elsner -- Policy for social costs : Kapp v. neoclassical economics / James A. Swaney -- Improved allocation through environmental taxes? Theory and reality : the example of Germany / Gustav M. Obermair and Lorenz Jarass -- Unemployment as a social cost / Paolo Ramazzotti amd Marco Rangone -- Social costs and human health : Kapp's approach and its growing relevance today / Pietro Frigato -- Impact of economic and labour market policy on health : health costs of the "transition process" in Central and Eastern Europe / Richard Peter and Johannes Siegrist.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freedom to plan : on Kapp's institutional outlook / Michele Cangiani -- Political democracy and social costs : reading K.W. Kapp's "Political economy" today / Regine Heidenreich -- Social costs, social rights and the limits of free market capitalism : a re-reading of Kapp / Maurizio Franzini -- Increasing complexity in the "new" economy and coordination requirements beyond the "market" : blockages and lock-ins as social costs, and a new governance to mitigate them / Wolfram Elsner -- Policy for social costs : Kapp v. neoclassical economics / James A. Swaney -- Improved allocation through environmental taxes? Theory and reality : the example of Germany / Gustav M. Obermair and Lorenz Jarass -- Unemployment as a social cost / Paolo Ramazzotti amd Marco Rangone -- Social costs and human health : Kapp's approach and its growing relevance today / Pietro Frigato -- Impact of economic and labour market policy on health : health costs of the "transition process" in Central and Eastern Europe / Richard Peter and Johannes Siegrist.

Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)

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