LEADER 03807oam 2200697I 450 001 9910779251003321 005 20230802005332.0 010 $a1-280-87296-9 010 $a9786613714275 010 $a1-136-28572-5 010 $a0-203-11315-2 010 $a1-136-28571-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203113158 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104779 035 $a(EBL)981864 035 $a(OCoLC)804662377 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000693295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12217812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000693295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10639039 035 $a(PQKB)10344186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC981864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL981864 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10578076 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL371427 035 $a(OCoLC)801405253 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134430 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104779 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSocial costs today $einstitutional analyses of the present crises /$fedited by Paolo Ramazzotti, Pietro Frigato and Wolfram Elsner 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge frontiers of political economy ;$v159 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-24347-7 311 $a0-415-50846-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSocial Costs Today Institutional analyses of the present crises; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Social costs today: institutional analyses of the present crises - an introduction; PART I Social costs: At the core of the capitalist economy; 1 Social costs and normative economics; 2 Institutions, rationality and social costs; 3 Social costs and the horizonal approach to ecologicaleconomics; 4 Planned obsolescence and the manufacture of doubt: on social costs and the evolutionary theory of the firm 327 $a5 The discourse on social costs: Kapp's 'impossibility thesis' vs. neoliberalismPART II Social costs of the present crises; 6 From the crisis of distribution to the distribution of the costs of the crisis: the case of Europe; 7 The financial crisis viewed through the theory of social costs; 8 In charge of themselves: the social costs of workfare policies in Europe; 9 The social costs of water commodification in developing countries; 10 The social costs of private elderly care; 11 Business bias as usual: the case of electromagnetic pollution; 12 A crisis of freedom; Index 330 $aThis book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on allocative efficiency or income growth alone; it requires a more general approach, based on social costs. It does not deal with social costs according to the Pigouvian or the Coasian traditions. It draws on the work of Original Institutional Economics (OIE) such as Thorstein Veblen, Karl William Kapp, and Karl Polanyi, on Post-Keynesians such as Hyman Minsky and, in general, on authors who have prov 410 0$aRoutledge frontiers of political economy ;$v159. 606 $aExternalities (Economics) 606 $aInstitutional economics 615 0$aExternalities (Economics) 615 0$aInstitutional economics. 676 $a330.15/52 701 $aElsner$b Wolfram$01515754 701 $aFrigato$b Pietro$01515755 701 $aRamazzotti$b Paolo$0146644 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779251003321 996 $aSocial costs today$93751757 997 $aUNINA