...f the mind while hands, eye and brain became synchronized into shelving that deck of cards. The social and economic impact of gambling has attracted lots of research primarily because they were neede...
There is an ambiguity in the idea of "civil society" as the arena of private economic and social relations, rather than of government. First, there is the idea that these relations are freel
... strengthening civil society vis-a-vis the state and the liberated market forces. As we know from the West, economic power can represent as great a danger to social solidarity, social justice, and aut...
...was contrasted with political society. Civil society referred to a social order, and most fundamentally, an economic order operating according to its own principles, independent of the ethical require...
...succumbs to the temptation to merge the "I" and the "we" in one or another of the ways--economic s, nationalism, and so forth--that we are constantly tempted with. Now, both of tho...
...raveled, down a road to more and more individualism requiring more and more centralization of political and economic power. For all our success in modern societies, especially in the United States, th...
...course of suggesting to the citizenship that they could have their cake and eat it, gaining ever more economic growth to pay for the government services, while paying ever less for them via tax ...
... it, the petty bourgeoisie. What I am suggesting as an urgent task is real attention to the experiences of economic marginality, of cultural conservativism, and of the virtues of localism and particu...
...oral continuity with his concept of democratic socialism. Nevertheless, I could no longer accept socialist economic doctrines, and since 1948 I have been something like a Truman Democrat. I take mode...
...nited States a coherent "communitarian" school of political thought, moral philosophy and even of economic analysis? Does this "communitarianism" have well-defined rules of methodo...
...tate as well as the institutional richness and democratic reach of the civil society depends heavily on the economic efficiency of a given society. Now, the question is: what does economic efficiency ...
...ords, "work hard and play by the rules," was a major theme at the post-election Little Rock economic summit. Economist Robert Solow of MIT and John Sculley, founder of Apple Computer, ...
...stion today is whether we go back to a laissez faire policy or whether there is a role for the state in the economic policy of the future and, if there is, whether this role is a transitional or a per...
.... market regulation. However, it received an extraordinary practical relevance in the face of the prolonged economic difficulties that started to trouble the world economy in the middle of the 1970s a...
...elfare regime that externalizes the costs of the market economy by means of a mixture of risk distribution, economic compensation, poor relief, and social control. Typical of these welfare regimes are...
...volved in a most peculiar way, in which the state has become involved in virtually every area of social and economic life during the last halfcentury, and yet is perceived both by those at the top and...
...licy has come to a dangerous crossroad. The disintegration of the Eastern bloc, German unification, and the economic decline of the superpowers represent an existential challenge for the EC with its &...
... the Chinese as the Middle Kingdom; and in the Arab-Moslem notion of Dar al-Islam. In the West, an array of economic , political, and cultural transformations produced nations out of ethnie. So, rather...
...lity and solves no problem--although actually in a transnational economy it becomes possible to think of an economic ally viable Slovakia and Serbia, as it was not between the wars--but it is actually ...
... Americans have reversed the usual understanding of public and private. The great political and economic forces that are usually understood to shape public policy are viewed as clashes bet...
... the young and victorious Russian democracy is facing. The Soviet society is completely unprepared for deep economic and governmental reforms. The stabilization of democracy within the former Soviet r...
... version of capitalism is dominant in many societies (in Latin America, for instance). As they consider the economic and social costs of their integration into the world market, the peoples of the for...
...pact of the events in the East and the proclaimed triumph of liberal capitalism. Claims for social justice, economic democracy and struggles against inequalities are increasingly dismissed as relics o...
...be the logic of their folly by a successive series of non sequiturs, whose origin can assuredly be found in economic ism as the savior of this period in history; a non sequitur to the unification of th...
...I refer here to the globalization of the economy and the technological revolution, on the one hand, and the economic recession sweeping the industrialized world, on the other. But I also call attentio...
