The Economy and Meaningfulness A Utopia 1st Edition by Hendrik Opdebeeck ISBN 2807609651 9782807609655

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ISBN 10: 2807609651

ISBN 13: 9782807609655

Author:  Hendrik Opdebeeck 

The Economy and Meaningfulness. A Utopia? 1st Edition: It is utopian to represent the economy as a place in which human happiness is as paramount as profit. That is the opinion of many who might pick up this book. This truism, analogous to the argument that Gross National Happiness is utopian, is, however, confronted by the actual situation of our economy today. Our globalized society, with its Gross National Product, turns out to be a dystopia. Our globe has indeed become a place where it is no longer that pleasant to live. From burned-out people at the workplace, via the gap between the northern and the southern hemisphere, to our threatened environment: there is not much left of the utopia of the free market. The aim of at least the last fifty years, since the Club of Rome, of transforming it into a sustainableeconomy is failing. In this book, we find a plea for economic practices as elaborated in the Social Economy, the Purpose Economy and the Economy of Communion. Time and again, these are manifestations of an economic transition which, to a greater or lesser degree, no longer focuses exclusively on principles such as scarcity, individualism or utility. Responsibility, the interpersonal and authenticity are at least as central. Each time, they are concrete challenges that are the pertinent responses to the tension between utopia and dystopia. It is not a matter of fanatically reversing all economic activity in our globalized society in the direction of an economy of meaningfulness. But the unmistakably obvious challenge for our economy that the alternatives represent has something of an appealing urgency.

 

The Economy and Meaningfulness. A Utopia? 1st Edition Table of contents:

• A letter to the reader, by way of introduction
• Dystopia vs utopia
  • The economy is sinking, long live the economy
  • Realized instead of imaginary
  • Fear vs hope
  • Trust as meaningfulness in the economy
  • An actively pluralistic economy of meaningfulness
  • Utopia and dystopia in the novel
  • Ecological capital – the Achilles heel
  • Economy, ethics, and justice
• Economics vs ethics, compassion and equality
  • The separation of economics and ethics
  • The compatibility of economics and ethics
  • From reason to instrumental rationality
  • Ethical economy
  • Embedding
  • Separation
  • Dialogue
  • Compassion as meaningfulness in the economy
  • Equality and democracy
• Philosophers of contract and the paradoxical context of the economy
  • With Hans Achterhuis in mind
  • The necessity of a just contract
  • Movement as the natural foundation of the economy
  • Power and equality
  • Fear and desire in justly observed laws
  • Transcending the ego
  • The paradox of scarcity
  • Mimetic desire and compassion
  • Economy as religion
  • The paradox of Christianity
  • Freedom
  • Freedom vs order
  • The third way
• From philosophers of contract to philosophers of responsibility
  • Agnostic and atheistic philosophers of responsibility
  • From justice to responsibility
  • From communality to responsibility
  • From fear to responsibility
  • Theistic philosophers of responsibility
  • Religious existentialism
  • Mystical responsibility
  • The face of the other
  • A bridge between atheistic and theistic responsibility
  • Paul Ricœur as a philosopher of bridges
  • The desire for happiness more original than suffering
  • The invitation to responsibility
  • Responsibility via an institution such as the economy
  • A Buddhist philosophy of responsibility
  • Responsibility in Buddhist terms
  • Guanyin, or Buddhist compassion, in the economy
  • Beyond sustainability
  • Gross national happiness
  • Beyond the gross national product
  • A globalized phenomenon
  • Linking values to responsibility and meaningfulness
  • Measuring gross national happiness
  • The economy in search of meaningfulness
• Economic responsibility
  • Interim review: The core of today’s economy
  • The economy as a box of blocks
  • The individual first
  • Scarcity in itself
  • The end justifies the means
  • The centrality of utility
  • And finally, prices
  • Justice and transcending the tension between dystopia and utopia
  • Merits versus needs
  • The enterprise versus the state
  • Efficiency versus equity
  • The shared economy versus the economy of meaningfulness
  • Economic justice inspired by Levinas
  • From egology to otherness
  • From self-interest towards the face of the other
  • From desire to longing
  • From social morality to authentic ethics
  • From parity to equality
  • From goodness to universal responsibility
  • A responsible economy
  • Responsible, as in responsible economics
  • Inter-human, as in the social economy
  • Enough, as in the circular economy
  • Balanced, as in happiness economics
  • Authentic, as in the purpose economy
  • Meaningful, as in the economy of communion
• Conclusion
  • Afterword by Ludo Abicht

 

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