Defining infrastructure and commons management -- Overview of infrastructure economics -- Microeconomic building blocks -- Infrastructural resources -- Managing infrastructure as commons -- Infrastructure pricing -- Congestion -- Supply side incentives -- Transportation infrastr…
Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regula…
Aquinas's social and economic teachings -- Aquinas and economic thought -- From Aquinas to civil economy -- The Thomistic soul of civil economy. "This thought-provoking monograph connects the idea of civil economy in Italian economic thought to the work of Thomas Aquinas. Its m…
Das Buch trägt zur Neubelebung einer Soziologie der öffentlichen Verwaltung bei und lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit auf eine Arbeitswelt mit eminenter Bedeutung für Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Kathrin Englert stellt die Frage nach dem Wandel im Amt neu, nämlich als Frage der An…
"Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity o…
"Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity o…
"Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity o…
"Democracy, Economics, and the Public Good provides a critical examination of essential aspects of American life, reviewing democratic and economic theories and practices and providing examination of ideas of the public good. Similar critical processes are applied to theories an…
Throughout history, humans have sought to enhance their wellbeing across various domains. Though the spectrum of factors responsible for wellbeing has widened considerably and advances have been realized in scientific-technological fields, significant failures have been encounte…