K. William Kapp

The Heterodox Theory of Social Costs

By K. William Kapp
Herausgeber: Berger, Sebastian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

K. William Kapp's heterodox theory of social costs proposes precautionary planning to pre-empt social costs and provide social benefits via socio-ecological safety standards that guarantee the gratification of basic human needs. Based on arguments from Thorstein Veblen, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, social costs are conceptualized as systemic and large-scale damages caused by markets. Kapp refutes neoclassical solutions, such as bargaining, taxation, and tort law, unmasking them as ineffective, inefficient, inconsistent, and too market-obedient. The chapters of this book present the social costs of markets and neoclassical economics, the social benefits of environmental controls, development planning, and the governance of science and technological standards. This book demonstrates the fruitfulness of the heterodox theory of social costs as a coherent framework to develop effective remedies for today's urgent socio-ecological crises. This volume is suitable for readers at all levels who are interested in the theory of social costs, heterodox economics, and the history of economic thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781138775473
• ISBN-10: 1138775479
• Artikelnr.: 42139447

Autorenporträt

K. William Kapp (1910-1976) was a German-American economist, one of the founders of Ecological Economics, a leading contributor to the institutional economics movement, and author of "The Social Costs of Business Enterprise." Sebastian Berger is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of the West of England, winner of the 2009 Helen Potter Award (Association for Social Economics), and trustee of the Kapp Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. "The Planned Economy and International Trade" 3. Social
Costs and Social Returns - A Critical Analysis of the Social Performance of
the Unplanned Market Economy 4. Social Costs of Free Enterprise 5. Social
Returns: A Critical Analysis of the Social Performance of the Unplanned
Market Economy 6. Towards a New Science of Political Economy 7. Social
Costs and Social Benefits - A Contribution to Normative Economics 8.
Discussion Between Professor Shibata and Professor Kapp by The Economist
9. Towards a Normative Approach to Developmental and Environmental Planning
and Decision-Making 10. Should the Development Process Itself be Seen as
Representing a Kind of Economic System in Newly Developing Economies Today?
11. Environmental Control and the Market Mechanism 12. Energy and
Environment: Inadequacy of Present Science and Technology Policies 13. The
Future of Economics