By Irene Schoene
Alternative economics for the twenty first century
Modern economics bases its view of the area on assumptions approximately nature and other people laid down through Adam Smith, approximately three hundred years in the past, in a time while humans traveled by way of horse and carriage and wrote via the sunshine of candles. We now stay in a globally attached, postindustrial international of electronic verbal exchange and area exploration—and but, our monetary version continues to be caught long ago. In reasonable Economics, Irene Schoene places ahead an alternate economics that isn't merely suitable to our sleek global of know-how and yet which additionally exhibits an knowledge of environmental and geographic concerns. This publication is a must-read for an individual who has wondered our monetary version, puzzled how the monetary crash used to be in a position to occur, or questioned what we will be able to do cease it occurring back.
Read Online or Download Fair Economics: Nature, Money and People beyond Neoclassical Thinking PDF
Similar business books
We now reside in a 'wiki' international the place mass collaboration is not just possible'it's usually the simplest resolution. traditional administration idea assumes that command-and-control is the simplest method to manage the efforts of huge numbers of individuals, yet fast switch and extending complexity have rendered that version out of date.
Leave the Bastards Behind: An Insider's Guide to Working for Yourself
Have you considered operating for your self? perhaps its anything you've been dreaming approximately for years. Is so, go away the Bastards in the back of is for you. For too lengthy, you've labored for different people's businesses and been bossed round through bad bosses. now's the time to paintings for the simplest boss you may have — your self!
Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
In actual fact, simply because they're those truly doing the day by day paintings front-line staff see an outstanding many difficulties and possibilities that their managers don't. yet such a lot enterprises do very poorly at tapping into this striking capability resource of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating rules.
- Risk-Pooling Essentials: Reducing Demand and Lead Time Uncertainty (SpringerBriefs in Business)
- A Critical Perspective of ISCT
- The New Corporate Facts of Life
- Cooking Up a Business: Lessons from Food Lovers Who Turned Their Passion into a Career — and How You Can, Too
Additional info for Fair Economics: Nature, Money and People beyond Neoclassical Thinking
Example text
20 There really is no contradiction, in fact. Mental assent is requisite; it is just that the best evidence of that assent is objective indicia. So Lucy v. Zehmer relies on the Restatement provision built on Raffles21 to capture all that can be captured concerning the requisite states of mind of the parties to a contract. In terms resonant of Lucy v. ”23 Lucy v. Zehmer is also credited as a source of Section 16, “Intoxicated Persons,” of the Second Restatement, though it is not so clear that the case has anything at all to say about the contracts of intoxicated persons.
16 A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology Another example: The law on contract modification is not a model of clarity. The decisions and pertinent legislative enactments reach and occasionally codify diverse conclusions. 4 But we might still conclude that Alaska Packers is part of the canon because it formulates the problem in terms that demonstrate the balance of normative considerations implicated in the contract modification setting. If law students and lawyers encounter a contract modification issue, they might only recognize it as a potential problem because of Alaska Packers, if that case were part of their first-year contracts experience.
That is, the cases are presented in terms that emphasize their canonical status according to the parameters suggested in this chapter. It is only after that catalog that the normative foundation of the canonical cases is considered in terms of the extant theories of contract. So, Chapters Three, “Contract Formation Doctrine”; Five, “Contract Performance Doctrine”; and Seven, “Contract Enforcement Doctrine,” assert the canonical status of certain cases. Chapters Four, “Theory of Contract Formation”; Six, “Theory of Contract Performance”; and Eight, “Theory of Contract Enforcement,” consider the fit of those cases with deontic and consequentialist normative theories.