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Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century

Principles and Policies

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Nikolaos Karagiannis
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  2. John Marangos
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Part of the book series: Perspectives from Social Economics (PSE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Education, Distribution, and Good Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Moral Education and the Good Society: An IMPACT for HBCUs

      • Denise Pearson
      Pages 3-21

    3. What Does the Rising Tide Bring?

      • Robert B. Williams
      Pages 23-47

    4. Divided We Stand, United We Fall—A Good Society Needs an Individual Poverty Measure

      • Danièle Meulders, Síle O’Dorchai
      Pages 49-72

  3. Sustainability, Ecology, and Good Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Prosperity

      • Shann Turnbull
      Pages 75-103

    3. Green Consumerism: A Path to Sustainability?

      • Valerie K. Kepner, Paula M. Cole
      Pages 105-121

    4. Sustainability in a Good Society: Alternate Visions from Australia and the United States

      • Janet Spitz
      Pages 123-142

  4. Economic Development, Employment, and Good Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Not Just Fun and Games: Reconceptualizing the Role of Young People in Economic Development

      • K. Maeve Powlick
      Pages 145-167

    3. The Making of a Good Society: Lowe’s Instrumental Method and the Pursuit of Full Employment

      • Michael J. Murray
      Pages 169-185

  5. Civic Institutions, Freedom, Time, and Good Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Good Society: The Case of Forsyth Futures, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA

      • Jessica M. Bailey, Doris Páez, Morteza Sadri
      Pages 189-203

    3. The Acting Person: Reconstructing Economic Agency around a Living, Breathing, Existential Actuality

      • Edward J. O’Boyle
      Pages 205-225

    4. Time on the Ledger: Social Accounting for the Good Society

      • Tom Walker
      Pages 227-247

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 249-275
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Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society.

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Bob Williams Danièle Meulders Síle O'Dorchai Shann Turnbull Paula M. Cole Valerie K. Kepner Janet Spitz Edward J. O'Boyle Michael J. Murray Tom Walker K Maeve Powlick

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