Evolving Values for a Capitalist World (Series)

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In most of the world today, the issue is not whether or how to embrace capitalism, but how to make the best of it. The currently dominant capitalist values include competitive individualism, instrumental rationality, and material success. The series will explore questions such as: Will these values suffice as a basis for social organizations that can meet human and environmental needs in the twenty-first century? What would it mean for capitalist systems to evolve toward an emphasis on other values, such as cooperation, altruism, responsibility, and concern for the future?

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It's Legal but It Ain't Right

Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries

A wide range of scholars, journalists, and policy analysts examine the "lawful but awful" practices that populate the gray area between legality and morality

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

Rethinking Sustainability

Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development

A Civil Economy

Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century

An accessible overview of the concept of the civil economy and how it works

Helping People Help Themselves

From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance

Presents the argument that development is a transformative process that cannot be imposed from the outside

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

As if the Future Mattered

Translating Social and Economic Theory into Human Behavior

Explores how society can learn to care about the future