TY - BOOK ID - 14305586 TI - The state as utopia : continental approaches PY - 2010 SN - 1441974997 9786612971570 1441975004 1282971573 PB - New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, DB - UniCat KW - State, The -- Economic aspects. KW - Utopias -- Economic aspects. KW - Utopias. KW - Utopias KW - State, The KW - Political Science KW - Business & Economics KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Economic History KW - Socialism, Communism & Anarchism KW - Economic aspects KW - State, The. KW - Ideal states KW - States, Ideal KW - Utopian literature KW - Administration KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Political science. KW - Economic history. KW - Social sciences. KW - Economics. KW - Methodology/History of Economic Thought. KW - Political Science. KW - Social Sciences, general. KW - Political science KW - Socialism KW - Voyages, Imaginary KW - Dystopias KW - Sovereignty KW - History of Economic Thought/Methodology. KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Civil government KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - Economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14305586 AB - This book examines utopias in classical political economy and is based on the papers presented by leading scholars at the 22nd Heilbronn Symposium in the Economics and the Social Sciences. The book focuses on the tension between the State and utopia (the State as utopia vs. utopia instead of a state). The contributors also study the question of whether seafaring and landlocked states visualize the commonwealth differently and develop different utopias, and it is concluded they do not. The volume therefore follows the refutation of the Schumpeterian Hypothesis that more concentrated industries stimulate innovation. Though the hypothesis is refuted it still remains important, the chapters argue, because it charts out an entire research program, serves as a benchmark of definite public and private sector boundaries, and defines the grammar of discourse for constitutional economic policy in OECD states. These themes are explored in detail through contributions by economists, philosophers, and social historians. The contributors examine utopias hitherto never or rarely reviewed in the English language, making this book of interest to students and scholars in economics, political science and the history of economic thought. ER -