... ignorance leads even risk-averse consumers to adopt them. We offer theoretical contributions to research on the social construction of risk, the attitude–behavior gap, and neoliberal responsibilization. social construction of risk personal finance regulatory failure risk competition market system...

...Tamas Angelus Abstract The Hungarian health care system is scheduled to undergo dramatic structural changes, emphasizing preventive medicine, health education, and competition among providers. cost control health care reform health education Hungary market system preventive medicine TAMAS...

...This chapter focuses its discussion on Keynes’s early “corporatist” dissatisfaction with the market—a dissatisfaction that ran deeper than the Pigovian critique of laissez faire, later known as the “free market” system. In today’s world, a predominantly capitalist economy means...

...This chapter examines the institutions of the domestic market system in the Greek city-states. It begins with a discussion of private property in relation to trade, noting that, in the framework of the kind of collective appropriation constituted by the city-state, citizens were free to use...

...This chapter examines the extent and the limits of the market system in ancient Greece. It begins with a historical overview of the center-periphery model that emerged during the period, predation as a defining characteristic of the ancient Greek market, and the divergence of prices from one region...

... Gary The Geneva School spheres political economic separation utility artificial intelligence Habermas Jürgen instrumental rationality Self-regulating market system Fictitious commodities Double movement Protection Socialism Embeddedness Freedom in a complex society Neoliberalism...

...This chapter provides a new account of the political economy of the public market system of provisioning, exploring how the common good of citizens' access to food was forged out of the conflicting and converging interests, rights, and responsibilities of the three constituent parties involved...

... demands that we (collectively or singly) pay more and that future pensioners work longer or receive less. The following section shows how states, through the law, are deeply implicated in all market systems, which offer but one means of coordinating economic action. It is not possible to conceive...

... the evolution of the global state and market system, and spells out some of the key challenges facing corporate leaders making strategies and policies to both shape and understand the future. business—government relations competition corporate strategy corporations firm markets policy risk capital...

...Policies referring to the transition from government intervention to a free market system and from stabilisation to sustained growth can never come into being without the help of adequate state involvement. Although markets have the natural capacity to move toward equilibrium, some imperfections...

... a regulated market system. Neoliberal market systems are far from the democratic ideal; social democratic market systems are closer, but they still come up against strong limits in the form of inherent market failures which prevent real democracy from being possible in such an economy. The second argument...

.... Second, a command economy assumes a monosociety without disparate interests and differing value judgments. Because these premises are almost nonexistent in real life, the command economy faced insurmountable problems. A market system has its own shortcomings, but compared to a command economy, it has...

...This chapter discusses socialist planning that satisfied two urgent ideological needs within the post-1931 Labour party. It states that planning served as an attractive socialist alternative to the discredited capitalist market system. It notes that the traditional Labour demand for ‘fundamental...

...Figure 5.1 Prime-Age Employment Rates for Europe and the United States Last chapter the argument was made that market systems have substantial democratic potential. They have the potential to act like democratic voting machines and the potential to be shaped in very different ways to promote...

...This chapter examines Republican Beijing's new market system and patterns of consumption. It explains that three types of goods, excluding food, circulated through Beijing's markets: industrial products, handicraft items from Chinese cities and the countryside, and recycled articles. Despite some...

... selection and market impact. The chapter ends with a discussion of the US and EU regulatory framework that governs the dissemination of market information with respect to equity securities (such as the US National Market System), debt securities, exchange-traded derivatives, and in the wake of the recent...

... through oil price controls. The 1970s energy crisis thus represented not a crisis of scarcity but a crisis for the whole free market system; it focused upon a whole set of actors and institutions that were defined as the antithesis of the fair competition of the market. The rise of neoliberalism...

... policy policy reform international trade exports imports central planning system market system trade barriers China started reforming its foreign trade system in 1978. Before 1978, China had a foreign trade regime modelled after the Soviet Union in the 1950s, which was an extreme form of import...

...Chapter 1 argued that that the justification for the municipal market system was to sustain the public good of citizens' access to food. This chapter focuses on the extent to which the corresponding market infrastructure succeeded in fulfilling this political mandate. The analysis therefore shifts...

... and actions in the free market system; so many of the relevant effects are seen first and foremost at the individual level. But these individual effects can multiply and cascade to generate patterns that do have important consequences for the general economic and social fabric. Emotions, misperceptions...