Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism : Essays Inspired by Karl William Kapp's Theory of Social Costs (Paperback)

Introduction  1. Freedom To Plan: On Kapp’s Institutional Outlook Michele Cangiani  2. Political Democracy And Social Costs: Reading K.W. Kapp’s ‘Political Economy’ Today Regine Heidenreich  3. Social Costs, Social Rights and the Limits of Free Market Capitalism: A Re-Reading Of Kapp Maurizio Franzini  4. Increasing Complexity in the ‘New’ Economy and Coordination Requirements Beyond the ‘Market’: Blockages And Lock-Ins as Social Costs and a New Governance to Mitigate Them Wolfram Elsner  5. Policy For Social Costs: Kapp V. Neoclassical Economics James A. Swaney 6. Improved Allocation Through Environmental Taxes? Theory And Reality: The Example Of Germany Gustav M. Obermair and Lorenz Jarass  7. Unemployment as a Social Cost Paolo Ramazzotti and Marco Rangone  8. Social Costs And Human Health: Kapp’s Approach and its Growing Relevance Today Pietro Frigato  9. Impact of Economic and Labour Market Policy on Health: Health Costs of the ‘Transition Process’ in Central and Eastern Europe Richard Peter and Johannes Siegrist