On neutrality with multiple private and public goods

Religion is in many ways an economic phenomenon and can be analyzed as such. By economy most economists understand systems for the allocation of resources. In this light, this chapter notes various ways in which religious organizations are engaged in sectoral markets and produce private and public goods, entailing products and services. Religion and economy are interdependent and relate to each other in distinct ways across societal subsystems. Economy both permeates religious structures and is a co-system. This is generally studied by political economy: recent moves beyond neoclassical economic theory (which saw culture as an exogenous factor) emphasize the economy’s embeddedness in social relationships and its variation across cultures. The chapter considers ways in which religious phenomena reflect recent changes in capitalist systems and ways in which religious economies function as explicit economic systems.

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Assessing the role of economic actors in the production of private and public goods in three EU agricultural landscapes

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management ◽

10.1080/09640568.2014.1001022 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 58 (12) ◽

pp. 2113-2136 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

A.J. Villanueva ◽

S. Targetti ◽

L. Schaller ◽

M. Arriaza ◽

J. Kantelhardt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Goods ◽

Agricultural Landscapes ◽

Private And Public

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The Strategic Advantage of Being Poor: Private and Public Provision of Public Goods

Economica ◽

10.2307/2555050 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 61 (241) ◽

pp. 79 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Kai A. Konrad

Keyword(s):

Public Goods ◽

Public Provision ◽

Private And Public

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«Migros-Wald» oder Märchenwald? (Essay)

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen ◽

10.3188/szf.2016.0200 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 167 (4) ◽

pp. 200-204 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oliver Thees

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Private Sector ◽

Public Goods ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Institutional Economics ◽

New Institutional Economics ◽

The Public ◽

Private And Public ◽

Points Of View ◽

Forest Enterprises

Fairytale forests must face reality (essay) Swiss forest enterprises are finding it increasingly difficult to fulfill the demands on the forest economically. The problem is complex. To address it, we analyzed this situation from the points of view of production, industrial and new institutional economics. Swiss forest enterprises are multi-product firms. They are usually publicly owned and aim to provide crucial ecosystem services for the economy in the form of private and public goods that are mostly closely connected with the production of wood. Providing these goods can be made more efficient, especially by adopting organizational measures involving cooperation and information technologies. Another more difficult but necessary measure is to ensure the required public goods are paid for. No incentives, market-like structures or tools for this have yet been introduced. This paper is a plea for providing public goods under private-sector conditions, changing management structures accordingly, even reducing the demands on the forest and developing market-based mechanisms for paying for the public goods.

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Collective Action on Public Goods for Sustainable Development: Ethics in Action

Business Ethics and Leadership ◽

10.21272/bel.4(4).14-27.2020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 14-27

Author(s):

Lichia Y iu ◽

Raymond Saner ◽

Roland Bardy

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Civil Society ◽

Collective Action ◽

Public Goods ◽

Global Scale ◽

Civil Society Organizations ◽

Stakeholder Group ◽

Moral Foundation ◽

Public Authorities ◽

Private And Public

Maintaining and expanding public goods is synonymous with promoting sustainable development but discussions are needed to clarify how policies need to be coordinated to enable collective action on public goods. Collective action for Public Goods will only be successful if all who partake in such actions can gain complimentary benefits that would be either more costly or impossible to achieve without the collective effort. Such complementary benefits are possible provided all stakeholders contributing to the public good of social peace and social cohesion cooperate with each other and preserve this and other public goods be they citizens, civil society organizations, all public authorities and all business firms. This concerted effort for a good cause can certainly be coined “ethics in action” – a notion which exhibits the moral foundation of the private and public choices inherent in sustainable development implementation of which interactions amongst stakeholders are no longer transactional, but rather aspiring toward greater good. Civil society organizations are key stakeholders producing, maintaining, and benefitting from Public Goods. They should strive for full inclusion, as there are many people who are either excluded or under-provided with respect to public goods. Public authorities, another key stakeholder group, need to cooperate with other stakeholders through collaborative frameworks and mechanisms for collective action that bind states and international organizations at a global scale. Another important stakeholder group, private and public enterprises need to operate within a level playing field globally, conduct business based on Responsible Business criteria and be welcomed to contribute to Public Goods creation in a sustainable and proactive manner without causing negative impacts due to their business activities. This paper presents and discusses how collective action can be achieved through concerted efforts by all members of society aiming to produce and maintain public goods essential for the sustained and equitable functioning of society. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development serves as a shared roadmap in achieving a shared future. Keywords: Collective Action, Public Goods, Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, UN Agenda 2030.

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