Co-Designing Economies in Transition

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

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1. Transdisciplinary Foundations for Contemporary Social and Economic Transformation.- Chapter 2. In Search of a New Compass in the Great Transition: Towards Co-Designing the Urban Space We Care About.- Chapter 3. Navigating the Great Transition via Postcapitalism and Contemplative Social Sciences.- Chapter 4. Having, Being, and the Commons.- Chapter 5. Par Cum Pari: The Value System of Commons-Based Peer Production and the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church.- Chapter 6. Economics Beyond the Self.- Chapter 7. The Koan of the Market.- Chapter 8. Epistemology of Feminist Economics.- Chapter 9. How to Make What Really Matters Count in Economic Decision-Making: Care, Domestic Violence, Gender Responsive Budgeting, Macroeconomic Policies and Human Rights.- Chapter 10. Contemplative Economy and Contemplative Economics: Definitions, Branches and Methodologies.- Part 2. Collective Awareness, the Self, and Digital Technologies.- Chapter 11. From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities?.- Chapter 12. First Life: From Maps to Social Networks and Back.- Chapter 13. The Organic Internet: Building Communications Networks from the Grassroots.- Chapter 14. Technocratic Automation and Contemplative Overlays in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing.- Chapter 15. One Bright Byte: Dgen and the Re-Embodiment of Digital Technologies.