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For over 2,000 years, banks have served to facilitate the exchange of money and to provide a variety of economic and financial services. During the most recent financial collapse and subsequent recession, beginning in 2008, banks have been vilified as perpetrators of the crisis, the public distrust compounded by massive public bailouts. Nevertheless, another form of banking has also emerged, with a focus on promoting economic sustainability, investing in community, providing opportunity for the disadvantaged, and supporting social, environmental, and ethical agendas. Social Banking and Social Finance traces the emergence of the “bank with a conscience” and proposes a new approach to banking in the wake of the economic crisis. Featuring innovations and initiatives in banking from Europe, Canada, and the United States, Roland Benedikter presents an alternative to traditional banking practices that are focused exclusively on profit maximization. He argues that social banking is not about changing the system, but about improving some of its core features by putting into use the "triple bottom line" principle of profit-people-planet. Important lessons can be learned by the success of social banks that may be useful for the greater task of improving the global financial system and avoiding economic crises in the future.

Banks and banking, Cooperative. --- International finance. --- Social responsibility in banking. --- Banks and banking --- Finance --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Social responsibility of business --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Business & Economics --- Investment & Speculation --- Finance - General --- Banking --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Economic aspects --- Banks and banking. --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. --- Global Economic Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Subprime Mortgage Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Agricultural banks --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance. --- Macroeconomics. --- Economic policy. --- Finance, general. --- Economic Policy. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- Financial crises --- Financial institutions --- Money --- Economics --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Funding --- Funds --- Currency question

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This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are transforming the role of religion and spirituality in "re-globalizing" societies. In referring to processes of "re-globalization", the book draws attention to profound ongoing changes in the patterns and mechanisms of contemporary globalization. Inter- and transdisciplinary in its approach, clearly structured, and easy to read, the book analyzes the impact of religious self-understanding, rhetoric, and practice on five core fields: economics, politics, culture, demography, and technology. In turn, it describes the effects of these five fields on religion and spirituality themselves. This book represents a broad, encompassing overview of the main transformations that religion is undergoing today. Roland Benedikter combines a "big picture" approach with a keen attention to the details of specific case studies. With its clear and accessible structure and timely examples, this book is ideally suited for students of international relations and religious studies, and will also appeal to researchers engaged in those fields and to interested general readers. The book is also apt to serve as an encompassing basis for contemporary debates in civil society, including both grassroots and expert discussions. Roland Benedikter is Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy; Research Professor of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the Willy Brandt Centre at Wroclaw University, Poland; and Member of the Future Circle of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the German Federal Government.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Religious studies --- International relations. Foreign policy --- godsdienst --- globalisering --- internationale betrekkingen

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Dieses Buch enthält sechs Aufsätze namhafter italienischer Philosophen und Schriftsteller. Sie präsentieren auf klare und allgemeinverständliche Weise Schlüsselpositionen der heutigen italienischen Moralphilosophie. Den Aufsätzen beigegeben sind eine Einleitung sowie eine kurze Würdigung des italienischen Denkens des Moralischen durch den Übersetzer und Herausgeber Roland Benedikter. Der Inhalt Mit Texten von Manlio Sgalambro, Graziella Berto, Carlo Sini, Aldo Masullo, Silvano Demarchi und Salvatore Lavecchia. Die Zielgruppen Studierende, Lehrende und Wissenschaftler der Philosophie Politiker Meinungsmacher Der Herausgeber Roland Benedikter ist Research Scholar am Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies der University of California, Santa Barbara, Full Academic Fellow des Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Washington DC, Trustee der Toynbee Prize Foundation Boston und Vollmitglied des Club of Rome.

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This book discusses the renewability of the political centre in European democracies. The recent environment of repeated bundles of crises, new social technologies, individualisation and the rise of populism has caused socio-psychological upheaval. As a consequence, the centre of open societies—the moderate middle ground—has been thinned out at the ballot box. This has led to the question: How might the political centre of liberal democracies be revived to preserve and further develop ‘democracy within democracy’ as the benchmark of dialogic moderation, community building, balance and reason? Has the traditionally designated format of the ‘catch-all party’ come to an end or does it have a future? Which models are available? Dieses Buch diskutiert die Erneuerbarkeit der politischen Mitte in europäischen Demokratien. Im Umfeld wiederholter Krisenbündel haben neue soziale Technologien, Individualisierung und Aufstieg des Populismus sozialpsychologische Umbrüche hervorgerufen. Als Folge davon wurde das Zentrum offener Gesellschaften – die gemäßigte Mitte – an den Wahlurnen ausgedünnt. Das hat zur Zukunftsfrage geführt: Wie wäre die politische Mitte liberaler Demokratien wiederzubeleben, um „Demokratie in der Demokratie“ als Maßstab dialogischer Mäßigung und Gemeinschaftsbildung, von Ausgleich und Vernunft zu wahren und weiterzuentwickeln? Ist das traditionell dazu bestimmte Format der „Volkspartei“ am Ende – oder hat es eine Zukunft? Welche Modelle kämen in Frage?

Globalisierung Glokalisierung Kommunitarismus Kosmopolitismus Nicht-Demokratien Parteiensystem Parteipolitik Pluralismus Populismus Re-Politisierung Transformationen Vertrauensverlust westliche liberale Demokratien Zentrum-Parteien Wahlverhalten Politisches System Politische Mitte Volkspartei Parteienstaat Parteiendemokratie