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The first development is the fragmenting of the global economy.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
Building the foundational economy that determines the well-being of most people is critical for ideas such as a ‘universal basic infrastructure’, which would ensure that all parts of a country have access to adequate housing, transport, education, health and social care.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
Treue führt zu politischen Bündnissen, die Konflikte entschärfen und für die Stabilität sorgen, unter denen sich eine gesunde Wirtschaft entwickeln kann.
Jörg Ahlbrecht • Die große Kraft der kleinen Tode: Memento mori - ein vergessener Weg zu einem erfüllten Leben (Edition Aufatmen) (German Edition)
When historians write the epitaph for neoliberalism, they will have to conclude that it was the form of capitalism that systematically prioritized political imperatives over economic ones. That is: given a choice between a course of action that will make capitalism seem like the only possible economic system, and one that will make capitalism
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
In philosophical circles, Rawls’s approach is described as asserting the “priority of the right over the good.” On this view, our rights define a framework within which we can each pursue our beliefs about how to live; in contrast to the alternative, where we start with a particular conception of the good, and design rights in order to promote it.
Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
cooperation at scale. The state, business, and civil society all have roles to play in creating the
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Yet faced with the forces of global capitalism and technology, no country can do this on its own. Democratic and plural associations are also needed internationally to enable workers to resist the dehumanization and exploitation of the world economy. The alternative to hyper-capitalism and authoritarian nationalism is a renewed democratic
... See moreAdrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
Mit der Wiedervereinigung aber und dem Entstehen der Berliner Republik gab es einen Schub in Richtung Verklärung des Staates, der kraft des Shitbürger-Marschs durch die Institutionen nach weltanschaulicher Erlösung strebte.