Human-Centred Economics

This open access book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and resilience. It finds that the standard liberal economic growth and development model has evolved over the past century in a fundamentally unbalanced manner that underemphasizes the...

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मुख्य लेखक: Samans, Richard
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description This open access book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and resilience. It finds that the standard liberal economic growth and development model has evolved over the past century in a fundamentally unbalanced manner that underemphasizes the crucial role of institutions – legal norms, policy incentives and public administrative capacities – in translating market-based growth in the production of goods and services into broad and sustainable gains in social welfare at the household level. Correcting this imbalance of emphasis in economic theory and policy between markets and institutions, production and distribution, and national income and household living standards is the single most important step required to transcend 20th century trickle-down “neoliberalism” and replace it with a more human-centred model of economic progress in the 21st century. The book breaks new ground by integrating the principal institutional dimensions of the social contract into the heart of macroeconomic theory and presenting extensive corresponding reforms of domestic and international economic policy to refocus them on the median living standards, rather than primarily aggregate wealth or GDP, of nations. This is the bottom-line measure of national economic performance, and it depends on the strength of both markets of exchange and institutions in such areas as labour and social protection, financial and corporate governance, competition and rents, anti-corruption, infrastructure and basic necessities, environmental protection, education and skilling, etc. Extensive comparative data are presented demonstrating that countries at every level of economic development have ample policy space to narrow their “welfare gaps” – their underperformance on these and other key aspects of household living standards relative to the frontier of leading policy practice in peer countries.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1319752025-03-20T15:58:02Z Human-Centred Economics Samans, Richard Social inclusion Environmental sustainability Economic resilience Liberal economics Inequality Environmental crisis Economics growth Economic insecurity Commodification of labor Environmental exploitation International economic governance bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCF Labour economics bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory & philosophy This open access book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and resilience. It finds that the standard liberal economic growth and development model has evolved over the past century in a fundamentally unbalanced manner that underemphasizes the crucial role of institutions – legal norms, policy incentives and public administrative capacities – in translating market-based growth in the production of goods and services into broad and sustainable gains in social welfare at the household level. Correcting this imbalance of emphasis in economic theory and policy between markets and institutions, production and distribution, and national income and household living standards is the single most important step required to transcend 20th century trickle-down “neoliberalism” and replace it with a more human-centred model of economic progress in the 21st century. The book breaks new ground by integrating the principal institutional dimensions of the social contract into the heart of macroeconomic theory and presenting extensive corresponding reforms of domestic and international economic policy to refocus them on the median living standards, rather than primarily aggregate wealth or GDP, of nations. This is the bottom-line measure of national economic performance, and it depends on the strength of both markets of exchange and institutions in such areas as labour and social protection, financial and corporate governance, competition and rents, anti-corruption, infrastructure and basic necessities, environmental protection, education and skilling, etc. Extensive comparative data are presented demonstrating that countries at every level of economic development have ample policy space to narrow their “welfare gaps” – their underperformance on these and other key aspects of household living standards relative to the frontier of leading policy practice in peer countries. 2023-12-14T04:08:47Z 2023-12-14T04:08:47Z 2023-12-13T10:36:03Z 2024 book ONIX_20231213_9783031374357_11 OCN: 1411852343 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86107 9783031374357 9783031374340 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131975 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86107/1/978-3-031-37435-7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86107/1/978-3-031-37435-7.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-37435-7 10.1007/978-3-031-37435-7 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a International Labour Organization efc2a175-baf3-4459-92e1-5b32e7a4ba20 9783031374357 9783031374340 Palgrave Macmillan 356 Cham [...] open access
spellingShingle Social inclusion
Environmental sustainability
Economic resilience
Liberal economics
Inequality
Environmental crisis
Economics growth
Economic insecurity
Commodification of labor
Environmental exploitation
International economic governance
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Samans, Richard
Human-Centred Economics
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topic Social inclusion
Environmental sustainability
Economic resilience
Liberal economics
Inequality
Environmental crisis
Economics growth
Economic insecurity
Commodification of labor
Environmental exploitation
International economic governance
bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCF Labour economics
bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory & philosophy
topic_facet Social inclusion
Environmental sustainability
Economic resilience
Liberal economics
Inequality
Environmental crisis
Economics growth
Economic insecurity
Commodification of labor
Environmental exploitation
International economic governance
bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCF Labour economics
bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory & philosophy
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