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Co-Designing Economies in Transition

Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores the foundations for contemporary social and economic transformation

  • Debates the impact of digital technologies on collective awareness, networks and democracy

  • Highlights the benefits of contemplative economics in decision-making

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Introduction

    • Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino, Zack Walsh
    Pages 1-11
  3. Collective Awareness, the Self, and Digital Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
    2. From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities?

      • Igor Calzada
      Pages 191-217
    3. FirstLife: From Maps to Social Networks and Back

      • Alessio Antonini, Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore, Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino
      Pages 219-233
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 317-322

About this book

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research.

Chapter 13 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Keywords

  • Anthropocene era
  • Capitaliocene
  • Economies in transition
  • Contemplative social sciences
  • Political economy
  • Feminist economics
  • Authoritarian capitalism
  • Economics of globalisation
  • Post-Capitalism
  • Economic philosophy
  • Ecological civilisation
  • Contemplative economics
  • Technocracy

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino

  • Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA, USA

    Zack Walsh

About the editors

Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino is Aggregate Professor in the Department of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Turin, Italy. For the past 20 years he has been working towards the integration of social sciences and contemplative knowledge in action-research and higher education.

Zachary David Walsh is Researcher at Claremont School of Theology, USA, and a research specialist at Toward Ecological Civilization, USA; the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, USA; and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany.

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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