Complexity and change affecting us all
A recently published research study attempts to outline a path towards different and more inclusive economic outlooks
A change of pace and standard models – very urgent requirements, when facing the complexity that pervades all forms of social and production aggregation, and when, therefore, maps to guide us and tools to help us better understand are needed. This is, overall, the goal of Maria Mirabelli, Vincenzo Fortunato and Antonio Martin Artiles’s contribution recently published on SOCIETÀ MUTAMENTO POLITICA. Rivista italiana di sociologia (POLITICAL CHANGE SOCIETY. Italian Journal of Sociology),
entitled “Globalizzazione, disuguaglianze e nuovi approcci verso un modello di capitalismo sostenibile” (“Globalisation, inequalities and new approaches towards a sustainable capitalist model”), a work based on an underlying consideration: the current variety of capitalist systems and their evolutions. The paper focuses on “the Italian experience, within a context of growing uncertainty and inequalities” as well as the “main socio-economic changes and their impact on economy and society.” Hence, change, or transformation, are the key words permeating this research study, which first investigates the relationships between globalisation and transformation in the workplace, and then interlinked themes pertaining social risks and possible governance methods before looking at the issue of inequalities. The general approach is the consideration of “possible paths”, underline the authors, “as well as complementary or even alternative practices that hold economy and society together, in order to introduce a more sustainable and social era and inclusive capitalism.” For Mirabelli, Fortunato and Artiles, the “key concept is that the workings of self-regulated markets are not perfect; their flaws – not only affecting their internal mechanisms but also impacting less advantaged people – are so great that a state’s intervention becomes necessary and as such the pace of change is of the utmost importance in determining their consequences.”
We are in urgent need of a change of pace, then, assert the three authors, who nonetheless acknowledge how difficult it is to achieve such a goal and the necessity to involve more actors from the economic and social spheres. Mirabelli, Fortunato and Artiles’s study is not a ready-made guide, nor should be necessarily read unreservedly, yet it offers everyone significant food for thought.
Globalizzazione, disuguaglianze e nuovi approcci verso un modello di capitalismo sostenibile (“Globalisation, inequalities and new approaches towards a sustainable capitalist model”)
Maria Mirabelli, Vincenzo Fortunato, Antonio Martin Artiles
SOCIETÀ MUTAMENTO POLITICA. Rivista italiana di sociologia, 13(25): 23-35, 2022
A recently published research study attempts to outline a path towards different and more inclusive economic outlooks
A change of pace and standard models – very urgent requirements, when facing the complexity that pervades all forms of social and production aggregation, and when, therefore, maps to guide us and tools to help us better understand are needed. This is, overall, the goal of Maria Mirabelli, Vincenzo Fortunato and Antonio Martin Artiles’s contribution recently published on SOCIETÀ MUTAMENTO POLITICA. Rivista italiana di sociologia (POLITICAL CHANGE SOCIETY. Italian Journal of Sociology),
entitled “Globalizzazione, disuguaglianze e nuovi approcci verso un modello di capitalismo sostenibile” (“Globalisation, inequalities and new approaches towards a sustainable capitalist model”), a work based on an underlying consideration: the current variety of capitalist systems and their evolutions. The paper focuses on “the Italian experience, within a context of growing uncertainty and inequalities” as well as the “main socio-economic changes and their impact on economy and society.” Hence, change, or transformation, are the key words permeating this research study, which first investigates the relationships between globalisation and transformation in the workplace, and then interlinked themes pertaining social risks and possible governance methods before looking at the issue of inequalities. The general approach is the consideration of “possible paths”, underline the authors, “as well as complementary or even alternative practices that hold economy and society together, in order to introduce a more sustainable and social era and inclusive capitalism.” For Mirabelli, Fortunato and Artiles, the “key concept is that the workings of self-regulated markets are not perfect; their flaws – not only affecting their internal mechanisms but also impacting less advantaged people – are so great that a state’s intervention becomes necessary and as such the pace of change is of the utmost importance in determining their consequences.”
We are in urgent need of a change of pace, then, assert the three authors, who nonetheless acknowledge how difficult it is to achieve such a goal and the necessity to involve more actors from the economic and social spheres. Mirabelli, Fortunato and Artiles’s study is not a ready-made guide, nor should be necessarily read unreservedly, yet it offers everyone significant food for thought.
Globalizzazione, disuguaglianze e nuovi approcci verso un modello di capitalismo sostenibile (“Globalisation, inequalities and new approaches towards a sustainable capitalist model”)
Maria Mirabelli, Vincenzo Fortunato, Antonio Martin Artiles
SOCIETÀ MUTAMENTO POLITICA. Rivista italiana di sociologia, 13(25): 23-35, 2022