Smart Economy or Changing Structures – Reasoning for Taking Responsibility in Policy Making

Yıl 2010, Cilt: 2010 Sayı: 2, 1 - 25, 01.12.2010

Peter Herrmann

Öz

The present text makes reference to recent debates - on the one hand the general debates on a wider understanding of economics as they are brought forward by economists as Sen, Stiglitz but as well by philosophers as Nussbaum and others; on the other hand debates as they arose in the context of the recent manifestation of the major global economic crisis. In many ways we find quests for a moral and virtue-based reorientation, and by making this claim we find a kind of Renaissance, for instance by references to Aristotle. The present text, going back to various recent research by the author, criticises such orientations, claiming that (a) in many cases the virtues are actually depending on a manifest exclusion of certain groups, being with this highly contradictory and this socially problematic and (b) and depending on a wider understanding of the context, thus going much beyond 'values' - today's reclaims lack the understanding of such wider understanding.

Anahtar Kelimeler

economy, political economy, political-economic crisis, moral economy, moral crisis, ancient economy

Kaynakça

• Herrmann, Peter (Ed.), forthcoming: New Princedoms – Critical Remarks on Claimed Alternatives by New Life Worlds. With Contributions by Wendy Earles, Brigitte Kratzwald and Peter Herrmann. With a preface by Hurriyet Babacan; Amsterdam: Rozenberg Herrmann, Peter, forthcoming: Globalisation revisited; Society and Economy; Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó Herrmann, Peter, forthcoming: God, Rights, Law and a Good Society. Overcoming Religion and Moral as Social Policy Approach in a Godless and Amoral Society; Amsterdam: Rozenberg Herrmann, Peter, forthcoming: Human Rights – Good Will Hunting versus Taking Clear Positions In: Çelik, Kezban/Kalaycioglu, Sibel/Herrmann, Peter: Religion and Social Policy (working title); New York: Nova Science Herrmann, Peter, forthcoming: Rights – Developing Ownership by Linking Control over Space and Time; Amsterdam: Rozenberg Herrmann, Peter, forthcoming: Searching for Global Social Policy – Economy, Economics and Governance; Amsterdam: Rozenberg Herrmann, Peter, forthcoming: Social Services – Social Injustice through Empowering Customers and Users?; Bremen: Europaeischer Hochschulverlag