Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • John Marangos

   Pages 1-7

3. Marx and Engels’s Vision of Building a Good Society

   • Al Campbell

   Pages 9-31

4. Gendered Work in a “Good Society”—A Paradox to Care About

   • Karin Schönpflug

   Pages 33-56

5. Does the Field of Comparative Economic Systems (CES) Care about the Good Society? A Feminist Angle on the Need for Institutional Analysis in CES

   • Lynn S. Duggan, Barbara E. Hopkins

   Pages 57-77

6. The Development Ethics Perspective of a Good Society

   • John Marangos, Nikos Astroulakis

   Pages 79-98

7. Demystifying Finance: How to Understand Financialization and Think of Strategies for a Good Society

   • Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, John Milios, Spyros Lapatsioras

   Pages 99-119

8. Labor Standards, Gender, and Decent Work in Newly Industrialized Countries: Promoting the Good Society

   • Alex De Ruyter, Ajit Singh, Tonia Warnecke, Ann Zammit

   Pages 121-146

9. A Socially Sensitive Developmental State: Key Economic and Politico-Institutional Aspects

   • Nikolaos Karagiannis, Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi

   Pages 147-169

10. Obesity, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Good Society

    • Steven Pressman

    Pages 171-189

11. Questions for a Good Society: Concluding Thoughts

    • Ellen Mutari

    Pages 191-195

12. Back Matter

    Pages 197-203

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As a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions all within the context of visions of a good society.

• care
• economic system
• ethics
• feminism
• gender
• Institution
• institutional analysis
• Marx
• methodology
• strategy

'Marangos offers selected contributions that deal with economics and ethics from alternative perspectives.

The list of contributing authors includes scholars at various career stages, and with all exhibiting

passionate commitments toward grappling with ethical challenges of our times that the economics profession

should consider, but has tended to neglect. Marangos builds upon his strengths in Comparative

Economics, and the nine chapters that follow his introductory chapter seek to answer the question:

How might differing economic systems, and at various stages of development, attempt to create if not

good at least better and fairer societies? What unifies these authors in their efforts is a heterodox tradition

that leads each of them to think outside the economists' small box. Though the contributors are

active as professional economists concentrated and working in a variety of fields, topics dealt with are

largely focused on ethics and society. This focus renders Marangos' book useful to any potential reader

concerned with ethical questions of our day, and open to learning what our few, highly principled economists

are thinking.' John Hall, professor of Economics and International Studies, Portland State University and

research professor, Halle Institute for Economic Research

'This thought-provoking collection brings home the importance of envisioning what a better organization

of our economy and society might look like and how we might get there. Written from a range of

theoretical perspectives, the chapters are certain to stimulate discussion and debate.' Deborah M. Figart, professor of Education and Economics, The Richard Stockton College of NJ

• Department of Economics, University of Crete, Greece

  John Marangos

JOHN MARANGOS Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Crete and affiliated with Colorado State University (where he was Associate Professor of Political Economics from 2003-2009), USA.

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