Liberalism and capitalism today
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons
[2021]
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| Colección: | Innovation, entrepreneurship and management series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009631368606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART 1: The Conditions in Which Liberalism and Capitalism Appeared
- Introduction to Part 1
- 1. Political and Legal Conditions
- 1.1. Liberalism and democracy: new eldorados of political thought and political life
- 1.1.1. Liberalism, defender of the superiority of the individual, and its economic application, capitalism
- 1.1.2. The reduced role of the state and different positions in relation to monopolies
- 1.1.3. Democracy as a guarantee of freedom and equality
- 1.1.4. The economic consequences of democracy
- 1.2. The right of ownership as a necessary condition for savings and capital formation
- 1.2.1. Freedom as a condition of private property
- 1.2.2. Land ownership
- 1.2.3. Property rights and savings
- 1.3. The advent of the bourgeoisie
- 1.3.1. The hold of the military and the nobility in Antiquity
- 1.3.2. The emergence of the urban bourgeoisie: a Western phenomenon
- 1.3.3. When economic power…
- 1.3.4. … transforms into political power
- 1.4. The nascent authority of state bureaucracy
- 1.4.1. Legitimate coercion by the state
- 1.4.2. The evolution of the activities of state bureaucracy actors
- 1.4.3. Advantages and disadvantages of state bureaucracy
- 2. Economic and Sociological Conditions
- 2.1. Trade and industry: competitors of agriculture and the craft industry
- 2.1.1. The lesser role of agriculture
- 2.1.2. The growing role of trade…
- 2.1.3. … generated by free competition at national levels…
- 2.1.4. … and international levels
- 2.2. The dangers of industrialization
- 2.2.1. Industrialization and the destructiveness of the division of labor for humanity
- 2.2.2. The appearance of an industrial aristocracy
- 2.2.3. Corporate concentration
- 2.2.4. Growing pauperism.
- 2.3. The decisive influence of the Protestant religion on economic rationalization
- 2.3.1. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- 2.3.2. The sacredness of work and profit
- 2.3.3. The need for growth
- 2.3.4. Rationalization of the economy
- 2.4. The role of money and financial markets
- 2.4.1. The need for money
- 2.4.2. The first banks
- 2.4.3. The first financial markets
- PART 2: The Evolution of Liberalism and Capitalism
- Introduction to Part 2
- 3. The Birth of a New Capitalism in a New World: Financial Capitalism
- 3.1. The emergence and development of financial capitalism
- 3.1.1. Globalization
- 3.1.2. The information revolution
- 3.1.3. The financial revolution
- 3.2. Changes in corporate governance
- 3.2.1. Taking sustainable development into account…
- 3.2.2. ... and pollution
- 3.3. New economic policies
- 3.3.1. The need to combat rising prices
- 3.3.2. Monetary policy to combat inflation
- 3.3.3. Discretionary versus automatic economic policy
- 3.4. From the perfection of theoretical capitalism to the crises of real capitalism
- 3.4.1. Changes in the assumptions of pure and perfect competition
- 3.4.2. Questioning the uniqueness of prices
- 3.4.3. Expectations which are supposedly too perfect
- 3.5. Recurrent causes of the crises of capitalism
- 3.5.1. The beginnings of any financial crash: an innovation stemming from a need for financing
- 3.5.2. From speculation to collective psychosis
- 3.5.3. A monetary expansion
- 3.5.4. The bursting of the financial bubble
- 3.6. Some examples of crises of capitalism
- 3.6.1. The crises following the discovery of the New World
- 3.6.2. Crises due to the transportation revolution
- 3.6.3. The 1929 crisis
- 3.6.4. The 1987 crash
- 3.6.5. The crisis of the new economy in the year 2000
- 4. Towards 21st Century Capitalism.
- 4.1. A responsible and proactive economic policy
- 4.1.1. A policy of growth
- 4.1.2. The search for price stability
- 4.1.3. Improving the functioning of markets through positive regulation…
- 4.1.4. … in order to ensure the ethics of capitalism…
- 4.1.5. … and respect for the freedom of the market
- 4.2. Finance that respects the principles of capitalism
- 4.2.1. Banking regulation in the form of minimum prudential ratios
- 4.2.2. Financial regulation
- 4.2.3. The need for transparency on unregulated markets
- 4.2.4. Regulation of the over-the-counter markets
- 4.3. Renewed corporate governance
- 4.3.1. Better controlled accounting standards
- 4.3.2. A different kind of business management
- 4.3.3. The necessity of training employees and citizens in general
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management
- EULA.
