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Social Aims in a Changing World
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This book is a carefully considered attempt to picture the changing social life and to reveal and to emphasize the basic purposes or aims which should guide community and social action. The author holds that the recreation of oneness of community life in spirit and in essence involves a change of emphasis from individual privilege to personal obligation -- that the issue is ultimately moral. It is in part the nature of this obligation that he seeks here to establish.
Professor Beach has given us an indictment of the machine age as it has thus far developed, and of the so-called "triumph of the individual." No critic of the machine per se, he flays the purely selfish ends to which our machine-released energies have been directed. No idol smashing destructionist, he makes cogent suggestions for the building of a modern social order, based on mutual understanding and helpfulness, and making use of our present superlative existing and potential resources of knowledge. According to Beach, today's world has lost the excuse of ignorance with respect to such problems as sickness, immigrant maladjustment, child labor, and war. The tools are at hand with which to eliminate almost every social ill to which the world is heir. The ends of living, both individual and community, must be made to conform to a larger and more intelligently pattern ideal.
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Title Beach
Author Social Aims in a Changing World
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804701512, 9780804701518
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A Future for the American Economy
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The American economy is filled with so many contradictions today that it foils the best prophecies and most sophisticated forecasts by economists. This book is about those contradictions and the directions the economy could take in the future. In particular, it is about the central contradiction: government control and market freedom. How this contradiction is resolved is important not only for the United States but also ultimately for countries around the world.
The main thesis of this book is that social factors-rather than purely economic factors-are at the root of the contradiction between market freedom and government control. The author argues that the way markets are socially organized is critical to their capacity for operating independent of government controls. In essence, the social organization of the private economy is the key to the free market system. The economy can function more productively and humanely if effort are made to reduce state controls and create a market system that is socially self-regulated.
Important first steps in this direction are readily observable. The author evaluates two important trends in corporate self-management-worker participation and co-ownership-presenting evidence that these trends are both in the corporate self-interest and in the public interest. Self-regulation is beginning at the intercorporate level, where firms compete and collaborate profitably in trade associations. New cooperative associations of small firms are shown to out-compete conglomerates through “value-adding partnerships” that utilize information technology and require the establishment of cooperative norms.
Self-regulation is advanced through social investment, the allocation of capital by combining ethical and economic criteria. Over $450 billion is now being invested with ethical guidelines, suggesting that a balance of social and economic factors will be a vital part of investment practice in the future. The author suggest that if the United States wants to retain a vital economy at home, it must carefully examine the advantages of the social organization world finance and encourage the popular world markets to regulate themselves without destroying local and national economies.
The author asserts that competition by itself is not a stable basis for market self-regulation, because it leads to government intervention, and he examines case studies of businesses in Europe and the United States that manage trade associations in the public interest. To demonstrate his proposed model of the social market, the author argues for the idea of self-accountable trade associations competing horizontally, vertically, and in value-added chains. The book concludes with policy recommendations for local, state, and the federal governments to encourage self-regulation, suggestion that legislation must be supplemented by voluntary incentives, support for social research, and new modes of professional consultation.
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Title: By A Future for the American Economy
Author: Severyn T. Bruyn
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804718725, 9780804718721
Contents
Introduction 1
Karl Marx , American Standards Association , market economy
THE SOCIAL MARKET 11
economic sociology , Physiocrats , nomic
A Theory of Oppositional Dynamics in the Market 44
Hegel , trade unions , perfect competition
THE EMERGING SOCIAL ORIENTATION 83
labor power , worker cooperatives , John Lewis Partnership
The Growth of Social Investment 119
U.S. Steel , Socially Responsible Investing , McKesson
The Growth of a Social Sector 148
sumer , nonprofit sector , interpersonal relationship
THE SOCIAL GOVERNANCE OF MARKETS 169
Social Economic Council , ABPI , raw milk
SelfRegulation 202
MITI , antitrust , Japan
Social Indexes 228
vertical integration , Sherman Antitrust Act , tegic
The Public Interest 251
allocative efficiency , OSHA , market failure
THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MARKETS 267
Organizational Studies , Alfred Chandler , antitrust
Public Policies 287
AIDA , intrapreneurs , LSI Logic
Conclusion 321
Albany Symphony Orchestra , postindustrial society , Daniel Bell
The Global Market 343
Eurodollar , Third World , U.S. dollar
Notes 365
Worker Cooperatives , Robert Reich , Robert Kuttner
Author Index 419
Severyn , Bruyn , Self-regulation
The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920
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The first complete account of the rise and fall of the rubber economy in Brazil provides a dramatic example of one of the “boom and bust” cycles traditionally associated with Brazilian economic history.
The Amazon rubber trade was one of the most important export booms in the history of Latin America, dominating the economic life of the Amazon for 70 years until the successful cultivation of rubber trees by the British in Southeast Asia. Yet this long period of vigorous economic activity left the basic structure of Amazonian society relatively unchanged. One of the author’s main concerns is to explore why rubber exports did not generate substantial growth in either the industrial or the agricultural sector, and she finds the answers primarily in the relations of production and exchange that characterized the Amazon’s extractive economy.
The study also considers the impact of political decentralization and regionalism on the Amazonian economy, draws comparisons with the coffee boom in Sao Paulo that induced sustained industrial growth in that area, and traces the consequences of the rubber economy’s collapse on the social, political, and economic life in the Amazon.
Barbara Weinstein is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY, Stone Brook.
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Title The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920
Authors Weinstein, Barbara
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804711682, 9780804711685
Introduction 1
TWO Before the Boom 35
THREE Commercial Growth and Structural Stagnation 69
FOUR The Politics of Prosperity 99
FIVE The Struggle for the Export Sector 137
SIX The Limits of Foreign Control 165
SEVEN Para Versus Amazonas 192
EIGHT The Long Decline 213
Conclusion 262
Appendix 271
Notes 277
Bibliography 329
Index 341
Schooling and Work in the Democratic State
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A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue thegoals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the Marxian perspective views schools as serving the role of producing wage-labor for capitalistic exploitation.
The authors suggest that the shortcomings of both views are rooted in the fact that they do not recognize the true functions of the democratic, capitalist state. This state is seen as an arena for struggle between forces pushing for egalitarian, democratic, reforms and those seeking to use the resources of the state for private capital accumulation. Depending on which side has primacy at the moment, schools will reflect one set of goals over the other. However, victory is never complete, and the tide of battle has shifted back and forth historically.
The authors develop this theory through interpreting the dynamic relation between U.S. schools and the workplace. Based on this approach, they predict changes in both schooling and work as well as the forms that future conflicts between the contending forces are likely to take.
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics, and Henry M. Levin is Professor of Eduction and Affiliated Professor of Economics, at Stanford University.
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Schooling and work in the democratic state
By Martin Carnoy, Henry M. Levin
Published by Stanford University Press, 1985
ISBN 0804712425, 9780804712422
307 pages
Contents
Introduction 1
functionalist , capitalist , social relations
Historical Traditions and a New Approach 7
relations of production , functionalist , U.S. Supreme Court
Education and Theories of the State 26
social-conflict theory , relations of production , capital accumulation
Education and the Changing American Workplace 52
capital accumulation , labor market , Proposition 13
Social Conflict and the Structure of Education 76
vocational education , social mobility , herent
Reproduction and the Practices of Schooling 110
ability group , Huntington School , percentile ranking
Contradiction in Education 144
social equality , profes , school discipline
Reforms in the Workplace 177
trade unions , autonomous work groups , job enrichment
Predicting Educational Reforms 215
mastery learning , flexible modular scheduling , educational vouchers
The Potential and Limits of School Struggles 247
Reaganomics , Educational vouchers , Reagan Administration
References Cited 271
American Economic Review , Althusser , Chicago
Index 299
Levin , Schooling
