The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer.
In the past decade the world has
witnessed some severe financial and
economic crises, espeÂcially the financial crisis of
2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The
author states that the socio-economic order has in the past four to
five decades been thoroughly redesigned, generally favouring
models that prioÂritize the free market over the public interest
or even, more generally, government operation. He works out
that during four to five decades, globalized, capitalist societies
are facing a multiplicity of fundamental problems, such as: (1)
increasing debt that severely burdens both the private and public
sectors; (2) persistent poverty and an ever-increasing polarization
between rich and poor, in addition to (3) intractable environmental
problems that, fifty years after the Club of Rome's report entitled
‘Limits to growth’ (1972), has dragged the world into what in
recent years has been referred to as "climate change." The book
explains why all this is the direct result of value choices made
from the late Middle Ages onwards, when in the Western world the
societal models of that time were increasingly abandoned for a
societal model that came to rely on the primacy of economic
interests. The book not only subjects the ethical choices
but also examines various problems it has caused and probes for
possible ways out. This is an open access book.
General
Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG
|
Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Series: |
Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values, 8 |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Koen Byttebier
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
434 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-138839-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-03-138839-9 |
Barcode: |
9783031388392 |
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