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ISBN: 1421442027 1421442213 Year: 2021 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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"One of many objectives of leadership is upholding public values. But that objective may be quite different from other more conventional leadership objectives. This book discusses the requirements for effective leadership that promotes public values"--
Social responsibility of business --- Common good. --- Public interest --- Leadership --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Central / national / federal government policies
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ISBN: 9781912685905 9781912685899 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Goldsmiths Press
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"If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximize our utility--by working endlessly, undertaking further education and training, relentlessly marketing and selling ourselves--we are met with the steady worsening of collective social and economic conditions? In Futilitarianism, social and political theorist Neil Vallelly eloquently tells the story of how neoliberalism transformed the relationship between utility maximisation and the common good. Drawing on a vast array of contemporary examples, from self-help literature and marketing jargon to political speeches and governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vallelly coins several terms--including "the futilitarian condition," "homo futilitus," and "semio-futility"--to demonstrate that in the neoliberal decades, the practice of utility maximisation traps us in useless and repetitive behaviors that foreclose the possibility of collective happiness. This urgent and provocative book chimes with the mood of the time by at once mapping the historical relationship between utilitarianism and capitalism, developing an original framework for understanding neoliberalism, and recounting the lived experience of uselessness in the early twenty-first century. At a time of epoch-defining disasters, from climate emergencies to deadly pandemics, countering the futility of neoliberal existence is essential to building an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future" -- Publisher description.
Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Methodology of economics --- Economic order --- Social history --- Neoliberalism --- Economic history --- Utilitarianism. --- Common good. --- Social aspects. --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Ethics --- Hedonism --- Philosophy --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- 2000-2099
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ISBN: 0191938831 0192661698 0192661701 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press,
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This title explores the notions of global public goods, global commons, and fundamental values as conceptual tools for the protection of the general interests of the international community. It explores how states and other actors have used international law to protect general interests, and outlines significant challenges still to be addressed.
International law. --- Common good. --- Global commons. --- Values. --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Commons, Global --- Natural resources --- Public goods. --- Goods, Public --- Finance, Public --- Welfare economics --- Free rider problem (Economics)
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