Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society

1. Introduction
John Marangos

2. Marx and Engels’s Vision of Building a Good Society
Al Campbell

3. Gendered Work in a “Good Society”—A Paradox to Care About
Karin Schönpflug

4. Does the Field of Comparative Economic Systems (CES) Care about the Good Society? A Feminist Angle on the Need for Institutional Analysis in CES
Lynn S. Duggan, Barbara E. Hopkins

5. The Development Ethics Perspective of a Good Society
John Marangos, Nikos Astroulakis

6. Demystifying Finance: How to Understand Financialization and Think of Strategies for a Good Society
Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, John Milios, Spyros Lapatsioras

7. Labor Standards, Gender, and Decent Work in Newly Industrialized Countries: Promoting the Good Society
Alex Ruyter, Ajit Singh, Tonia Warnecke, Ann Zammit

8. A Socially Sensitive Developmental State: Key Economic and Politico-Institutional Aspects
Nikolaos Karagiannis, Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi

9. Obesity, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Good Society
Steven Pressman

10. Questions for a Good Society: Concluding Thoughts
Ellen Mutari

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Labor Economics, Public Finance, Sociology, general