... and any economist worth his salt will vouch that recreation is a very important activity for any thriving economy . There are others who will still maintain that gambling as a habit often comes riding...
...l Walzer). I begin from a three-part model which differentiates between civil society, the state, and the economy . Its roots lie in Hegel, but theorists as different as Gramsci, Parsons and Habermas ...
...posed not only against the state, taken as a coercive governmental apparatus, but, strikingly, against the economy and the private sphere of the family as well. Although he was thoroughly Marxist, he ...
... brake against coerced uniformity. Or take these words from the U.S. Bishop's Pastoral Message on the economy : "The dignity of the human person, realized in community with others, is the cri...
...a good society look like with due allowance for local differences and circumstances? What is the political economy of a good society? What is its public culture? There is no one answer to these questi...
...olutions. Although Thomas made some important modifications, especially in accepting the notion of a mixed economy , reserving government ownership for the "commanding heights," even that see...
...s either impossible in modern complex industrial societies, or might lead to a totalitarian society, whose economy is ordered by command--that is--to the kind of socialism that failed. A modern societ...
...itical reliance on market mechanisms by means of "deregulation" therefore may impoverish a given economy and may even reduce the economic growth rates and slow down innovation and evolution....
...te a National Economic Council to coordinate the many federal agencies whose functions affect the domestic economy . Another was to choose economist Laura Tyson--a well-known advocate of industrial pol...
...ontrolled economies of the East, and that we have to help Eastern and Central Europe to change to a market economy and capitalism as soon as possible. The only dispute in Europe is about the choice be...
... consequences of the welfare state for the freedom of the individual as well as for the functioning of the economy . The "deterring example" referred to was, in the first phase, Sweden, but s...
...ty but rather on some kind of insurance system or welfare regime that externalizes the costs of the market economy by means of a mixture of risk distribution, economic compensation, poor relief, and s...
...s been historically first under the tutelage of not the state, but capital itself. The American industrial economy at the turn of this century was reorganized by the financiers before the regulatory s...
...coin is supranationalism or transnationalism, that is, the development of an increasingly integrated world economy or, more generally, a world whose problems cannot effectively be tackled let alone so...
... Jews all agree that we can compartmentalize religion and politics: six days a week we devote to political economy and one day, if we choose, to God. But it is just this liberal solution to religious ...
...nge. Never before in history has a society had to undergo the transformation from a centralist to a market economy . The same is true for the transformation into a mixed economy with a superior private...
...here an American consensus, in the nineteenth century, that our nation's foundations were a capitalist economy , a liberal politics, and a Protestant religion? Perhaps--but everything that has happ...
...rms of organization in an increasing number of social relations and institutions: the family, schools, the economy , public administration, etc. Nevertheless, contrary to Bobbio, I believe...
...rket to do without the political life because they do not see an alternative policy to the market-oriented economy . Obviously the federalists will be the losers in this game. Let us not be intimidate...
...become the only legitimate principle of political organization accepted almost worldwide, while the market economy and the autonomy of civil society have simultaneously become universal paradigms. Th...
