scholarly journals Narrowing the Global Gap: Eco-Social Market Economy as New Perspective to Deal with Global Economic Inequality and Economic Insecurity in 21st Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Reza A.A Wattimena ◽  
Anak Agung Banyu Perwita
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Social Market

Global economic inequality, namely the economic inequality between various countries and regions, is one of the biggest challenges of 21st century. Thus, it has also become an important issue in economic security. It creates extreme poverty in the face of abundant living in several rich countries and regions. It is also the root of other global problems, such as human trafficking, spreads of slums, diseases, and international network of radicalism, extremism and terrorism. Because of the global scope, the world needs to develop new perspective in combating global economic inequality and its negative consequences. Eco-social market economy, which is developed from the German social theories, can offer such perspective. It balances between two important areas of social life, namely social justice on the one hand, and ecological awareness of the other hand. This paper elaborates the basic notions and implementations of eco-social market economy in global level to overcome the issue of global economic inequality in 21st century as a new perspective in addressing the issue of economic insecurity in our current global economic, political and security interactions.

A ‘Minefield of Misreckonings’: Europe’s Constitutional Pluralism

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 119-144
Author(s):  
Emilios Christodoulidis
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
European Level ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Constitutional Pluralism

AbstractThe paper is a critique of ‘constitutional pluralism’, as increasingly called upon to compensate for the social and democratic deficits of the European project, and of ‘constitutionalisation’ as compensating for the absence of any semblance of ‘constituent power’ at the European level. The substitution has been largely successful in redefining the terms of the debate. My interest in this paper, more specifically, is with constitutionalisation as a process of ‘becoming-constitutional’, the conditions of that process, and the criteria of ascription of constitutionality. My argument is that it involves a constitutive coupling with constitutional pluralism, such that allows even the current crisis to be portrayed as an ‘opportunity’ for Europe’s alleged ‘social market economy for the 21st century’ to ‘come out stronger’, its progress at no point obstructed or derailed by the peoples’ of Europe resistance to it.

scholarly journals Civil Economy in the Social Market Economy: a Theoretical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Flavio Felice
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Civil Economy ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Social Market

Abstract What do we mean by “civil” and “civil society”? This paper attempts to describe a complex notion of “civil economy” in Sturzo’s theoretical perspective of the social market economy. According to this political theory, “civil” is not opposed to “market,” which is not opposed to “the political” (the state). Rather, instead of being the transmission belt between the state and market, civil is the galaxy in which we find also the market and the state (but not only), each with its own functions. This tradition – rooted in Christianity – was able to oppose both Nazi and communist totalitarianism, while many Catholics made an impossible attempt to exhume corporatism.

scholarly journals Antonio Rosmini’s Social Ethics and his Relationship to German Thought

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Markus Krienke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
The One ◽  
Social Market

Abstract Putting the economic and social–ethical thought of Rosmini in relationship to the German tradition of social market economy, either a pertinent collocation of the liberal catholic thinker Rosmini or new perspectives for the concept of social market economy, which is in search for a new identity, have been made. The justification of this paper lies in the fact that Rosmini introduced the idea of social justice right in the sense of social market economy, on the one hand, and in the way in which the late 19th-centrury economic theory in Italy received his economic thought, on the other hand. Hence, despite his theoretical and cultural distance from Röpke, both have many interesting economic reflections in common.

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