The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World

Front Cover -- The Pandemic Within: Policy Making For A Better World -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Pandemic Within -- 2 At Home In The World: Overcoming The Predicament Of Complexity And Hegemony -- The Human Predicament -- Complexity And The Defeat Of Optimism -- Hegemony As Cognitive Captivity -- The Utopian Method Of Social Transformation -- 3 Ensuring A Well-functioning Public Infrastructure -- The Importance Of Strong Public Infrastructures -- The Pragmatic Relevance Of Utopian Thinking 4 Housing Is A Public Good, Not A Commodity -- The Uk: Housing As A Frontier Of Rentier Capitalism -- Vienna: A Century Of Integrative Housing Policy -- Our Vision: A Housing Guarantee -- 5 Redefining Work And Income -- The Gradual Destruction Of The Fair Labour Contract -- What Is Work? -- Promote Cooperatives -- Broadening The Notions Of Work And Income -- The Bread-and-butter Model Of Universal Basic Income -- Universal Basic Income Or Job Guarantee? -- 6 The Return Of Good Government -- The Poisoned Chalice Of Government -- The Curious Incapacitation Of Government Public Administration In The Age Of Privatised Keynesianism -- What Are The Prospects For Successful Administrative Reform? -- 7 Real Corporate Responsibility -- Moving Factories -- Corporate Social Responsibility -- Shareholder Value And The Rise Of The Giant Transnational Corporation ... -- ... And The Concomitant Decline Of Small And Medium-sized Businesses -- Civil Society And Economic Life -- 8 Money As A Public Good -- Too Big To Comprehend? -- Where Does Money Come From? -- The Hidden Order Of The Finance Industry -- Money As A Morality Play -- How To Get Out Of Our Financial Mess Educating The Public On Money -- The Public Creation Of Money -- Setting Up A System Of Democratically Controlled Credit Allocation -- Impose Capital Controls -- 9 Living In The Anthropocene -- A New Moonshot? -- Conceiving Human Survival -- Dealing Green -- Gardening, Not Engineering -- Towards An Ecological Society -- No Carbon Economy -- Clean Air, Water And Soil -- Job Creation And Economic Development -- Social Security -- Money -- 10 Towards An Ecological Society -- By Way Of A Vision -- Associations And Administration: The Return Of Developmental Democracy -- Reimagining Society Hendrik Wagenaar And Barbara Prainsack. References -- Index -- Back Cover. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.