Capitalism Reconnected

Toward a Sustainable, Inclusive and Innovative Market Economy in Europe
4. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-90-485-6263-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 134 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations.

An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consider our planet as ‘Our Common Home,’ for present and future generations.

This book argues that European economies should be the initiators of a global transition toward a sustainable and inclusive world economy. Together, amid severe geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges, they need to develop their own perspective on what a good economy really is, in distinction to Chinese state capitalism and American big business capitalism. Crucially, this requires the rediscovery of key European values, a coherent view on responsible capitalism, and a new self-awareness as a global player for the Common Good in today’s and tomorrow’s world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buijs, Govert

Balkenende, Jan Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Europe’s Present Condition: A Diagnosis

CHAPTER 1 Introduction: From the Challenge of 2015 to the Shock of 2022

CHAPTER 2 Europe’s 250-Year Project…

CHAPTER 3 Triumphant Capitalism: Bold Assumptions of an Overconfident Age

CHAPTER 4 Europe’s Confusion and Reorientation

Part II Europe’s Mission: Developing Responsible Capitalism

CHAPTER 5 The First Pillar of Renewal: Europe’s Ideals

CHAPTER 6 The Second Pillar of Renewal: Inspiration from Revaluing Europe’s Story

CHAPTER 7 The Third Pillar of Renewal: Ideas about Economics

CHAPTER 8 The Fourth Pillar of Renewal: Indicators and the New Art of Measurement

CHAPTER 9 The Fifth Pillar of Renewal: Institutions and the Multiactor Approach

CHAPTER 10 The Flying Wheel of Responsible Innovation (A): the ‘Makers’ of a New Economy (Business, Finance, Consumers)

CHAPTER 11 The Flying Wheel of Responsible Innovation (B): the ‘Embedders’ of a New Economy (Government, Nature, Community, Civil Society)

CHAPTER 12 The Flying Wheel of Responsible Innovation (C): the ‘Critical Innovators’ of a New Economy (Media, Research and Education, Imaginative Reflection)

Part III Europe’s New Position: Global Player for the Common Good

CHAPTER 13 A New World Order is Emerging

CHAPTER 14 Europe’s Contribution in Tomorrow’s World

CHAPTER 15 In Conclusion: Challenges and Recommendations for a Rejuvenated Europe

EPILOGUE: Towards an Economics of Hope

Über Autor(innen)

Balkenende, Jan Peter
Jan Peter Balkenende is Minister of State and was from 2002 to 2010 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He is now External Senior Advisor to EY and involved in Corporate Responsibility, Chair of the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, and of the Noaber Foundation, Associate Partner at Hague Corporate Affairs, Member of the Club de Madrid, and Professor Emeritus at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Buijs, Govert
Govert Buijs is a political philosopher and currently holds the Goldschmeding research chair ‘Societal and Economic Renewal’ at the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He recently supervised an interdisciplinary Templeton Research project on Markets and Morality, a collaboration between the universities of Amsterdam-VU, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, and Tilburg.