Rethinking the Market Economy New Challenges, New Ideas, New Opportunities [Hardcover]

This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means. It adopts an industrial economic approach, whilst proposing a road map leading to the adoption of a 'societal market economy' model as an appealing and politically acceptable third-way between capitalism and socialism.1. The Market Economy System in Question 2. A Stabilized and Regulated Financial Market 3. A Sustainable Economy 4. A Green Economy 5. An Innovative Economy 6. A Global and Local Economy 7. A Knowledge-based Economy 8. A Digital and Networking Economy 9. A Distributed and Collaborative Economy 10. A Social Economy 11. A Humanistic Market Economy 12. Happiness and Well-being 13. A State-led Economy 14. Toward a Societal Market EconomyJean-Jacques is also Professor Emeritus at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and is joint editor in chief of the European Business Forum (EBF). A specialist in strategic marketing, Lambin works as an analyst and consultant on problems of redeployment and restructuring of enterprises facing challenges due to the internationalisation of markets and market-driven management.