Economy and Society: Selected Writings

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Acknowledgements vii Introduction by Michele Cangiani and Claus Thomasberger 1 Part I Red Vienna 13 1 On Freedom 15 2 New Reflections Concerning our Theory and Practice 41 3 The Functionalist Theory of Society and the Problem of Socialist Economic Accounting 51 Part II The World Economic Crisis and The Rise of Fascism 59 4 Economy and Democracy 61 5 The Mechanism of the World Economic Crisis 66 6 The Essence of Fascism 81 7 The Fascist Virus 108 Part III On Marx and the Christian Roots of Western Civilization 123 8 Fascism and Marxism 125 8.1 Fascism and Marxian Terminology 125 8.2 Marxism Re-Stated 129 9 Marx on Corporativism 135 10 Community and Society. The Christian Criticism of our Social Order 144 11 Christianity and Economic Life 154 Part IV The Great Transformation, Political Philosophy and Democracy 165 12 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or Is a Free Society Possible? 167 13 Common Man's Masterplan 177 14 The Meaning of Parliamentary Democracy 187 15 Our Obsolete Market Mentality. Civilization Must Find a New Thought Pattern 197 Part V Alignments on the International Stage 213 16 Why Make Russia Run Amok? 215 17 British Labour and American New Dealers 226 18 Universal Capitalism or Regional Planning? 231 Part VI Towards a Comparative Study of Economic Institutions 241 19 On Belief in Economic Determinism 243 20 The Livelihood of Man, Introduction 251 21 The Economistic Fallacy 263 22 The Two Meanings of Economic 275 23 The Economy Embedded in Society 290 Postscript 299 24 Hamlet 301 Notes 314 Index 327