... the emergence of quality agricultural markets and short supply chains, but it also offers direct real-world insights for addressing contemporary agricultural market failures. Agricultural economies Sociology Capitalism Food High-end coffee roasteries, craft breweries and boutique wine makers...

... paying off the reckless banks (Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2013). There is more than abundant evidence that the repayment of loans of these poor countries is achieved at the cost of the consumption of natural capital and the degradation of the environment (Perkins, 2011 ; Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2013...

... development pathway. Design/methodology/approach The methodological basis is discourse analysis. Findings The outcome is a call to re-think and open up the feasibility, and possibilities for, alternative economic futures beyond free-market capitalism. Originality/value This paper makes a critical...

... and explained at the foundational level, highlighting where and why they have occurred. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Islam Islamic economics Philosophy Epistemology Islamisation of Knowledge Capitalism Socialism Economics Muslim communities residing in the Middle East, North...

...Charles G. Leathers; J. Patrick Raines Purpose At the 2009 Devos economic forum on the global financial crisis, David Cameron, then leader of the British Conservative Party and now Britain's Prime Minister, called for embracing a “moral capitalism.” The purpose of this paper is to consider...

...) are devoted to “division of labour” per Simon Mohun (Bottomore, 1991). Here, he quotes from Vol. III, Chap. 48 of Capital. Taking his lead (p. 156b), we supply our own quotation (English/German) of Marx (1978b), p. |S. 820|828). Freedom in this field [production] can only consist in socialised...

...Li‐teh Sun; John C. O’Brien; Qi Jiang The collapse of the Soviet Union and the success of the US economy at the end of the second millennium do not necessarily mean the end of socialism. In fact both capitalism and socialism are beneficial for a unitary human development, which consists of both...

...Benjamin Wong Wei‐Bin   Zhang . On Adam Smith and Confucius: The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Analects . New York : Nova Science Publications   2000 . 147 pp. , ISBN: 1‐56072‐765‐9 © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Capitalism Theory Moral responsibility Wealth...

... : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research   1999 . iv+136pp. , ISBN: 0‐88099‐196‐8 (cloth). ISBN 0‐88099‐195‐X (paper) © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Economic systems Socialism Capitalism This book is based on lectures given by six distinguished economists at the 33rd Annual...

...Anghel N. Rugina States that a more humane society is the ultimate goal of modern society, along with economy and form of government. Posits that in this study the theory of cheating the masses under capitalism and socialism‐communism, is valid ipso facto under fascism and any form of dictatorship...

...Donald C. Wellington The paper is a philosophical discourse on capitalism and its intellectual rationalization, economic theory. Both blithely ignore the most fundamental character of the human condition. Both may pay a price: capitalism through being replaced by an alternative economic system...

... inherits from Hobbes its individualistic basis and its chrematistic platform. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Capitalism Politics Philosophy Thomas Hobbes (1588‐1679) is known principally for his contributions to the history of political and social thought. The implication of his political...

...John E. Elliott; Thomas Hall This paper examines the origins and the institutions, strategies, and policies of the shift to transition toward capitalism and democracy as the aspired system of political economy of Boris Yeltsin and his supporters in Russia in the early 1990s. The paper argues...

... and anthropologist Girard are discussed to see whether this offers a valuable approach. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Capitalism Moral responsibility Welfare During the last quarter of a century the situation in the global arena has changed remarkably. Salient economic events are the two oil crises...

...Evan Jones Britain Capitalism Economics History Industrial performance The major lesson of this book is the danger of strong belief in long waves. If the authors had followed the logic of their own argument, they might have come to the same conclusion. Frank Wilkinson, in a 1983 review...

... that allow them to spend time with family and friends. Finally, the higher average income of people in a modern economy allows people to spend money on various forms of recreation in the company of their friends. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Capitalism Consumers Labour mobility Religion Social...

...James E. Alvey It is commonly held that Adam Smith is a prophet of capitalism. There is a good deal of evidence pointing towards his optimism about commercial society. This article claims to show the pessimistic side of Smith’s view of commercialism. While some of Smith’s pessimism is obvious, some...

...Priyatosh Maitra Attempts to trace the process of internationalization of production since the late nineteenth century, which has laid down the path and pattern of modern economic growth in the Third World. Industrial capitalism emerged historically in the UK with the Industrial Revolution...

... private property rights and the performance and prosperity of capitalism, de‐socialization of ownership was to become the backbone for market oriented reforms in post‐communist society. The absence of clearly defined property rights, their capricious enforcement, widespread cronyism and criminal activity...

...Walter Block Freeman criticizes the economics profession on the ground that it has improperly accepted the philosophy of laissez‐faire capitalism in five different realms: economic development, unionism and minimum wage laws, socialist central planning versus decentralized markets...