Background
Goudzwaard, Bob was born on March 4, 1934 in Delft, The Netherlands. Son of Maurits Pieter and Maria Adriana (Van Tertoolen) Goudzwaard.
(Beyond Poverty and Affluence argues that, like a virus wh...)
Beyond Poverty and Affluence argues that, like a virus which has developed an immunity to the cure, the problems of poverty, environmental degeneration, and unemployment today successfully resist the remedy of growth in industrial production. Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange demonstrate that over the last several decades the solutions used by industrialized nations either have not helped or have dramatically exacerbated these problems. Instead, these predicaments have become structural features of today's economic practice. The authors formulate an alternative, which they call the economics of care, and propose a twelve-step program for economic recovery in Canada.Goudzwaard and de Lange contend that poverty, environmental damage, and unemployment have a common origin: they emerge from structural flaws in classical and contemporary neoclassical economic thought, including that of Adam Smith and Karl Marx. Drawing on thinkers as diverse as RenT Girard and Hannah Arendt, on numerous Canadian sources, and on their own Christian tradition, the authors propose a 'pre-care' economy, which places care needs first on its list of priorities and only then addresses the scope of production, rather than a 'post-care' economy, which pursues maximum consumption and production above all else. They also describe in detail structural changes the Canadian economy will need to undergo to become an economy of pre-care. Included in their discussion is an assessment of the progress of 'sustainable development' in Canada, including the work of the federal and provincial roundtables on environment and economy, and a proposed framework for setting Canadian government finances on a durable foundation. The twelve economic proposals the authors put forward deal with such issues as international currency creation, the environment, the foundation of labour/management relations, the funding of social programs, wage and salary development, the scope of production and technological development, the structure of economic decision-making, the direction of government funding, and the dropping of trade barriers in North America and Europe.
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(Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a...)
Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a bold new economic practice. In the face of distressing societal realities - poverty, pollution and environmental degradation, ongoing losses in both the quantity and the quality of work - eminent Dutch economists Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange argue that the foundations of our local, national, and international economic order need renewal, and they provide a provocative twelve-step program for economic recovery based on an "economy of care" for the earth and its people.
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(Material Prosperity - Guaranteed Security - Revolution - ...)
Material Prosperity - Guaranteed Security - Revolution - Nationalism. These are the idols of our time. How can we be liberated from their grasp? Bob Goudzwaard places our plight in biblical perspective, asking us to totally revalue out values.
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social philosopher economics educator
Goudzwaard, Bob was born on March 4, 1934 in Delft, The Netherlands. Son of Maurits Pieter and Maria Adriana (Van Tertoolen) Goudzwaard.
Master of Economic, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1957. Doctor of Economic, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1970.
Researcher, Doctor A. Kuyper Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1959-1967; member parliament, The Hague, 2d Chamber, 1967-1971; professor economics, Free U., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1971; professor cultural philosophy, Free U., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1987. Chairman EECOD, Brussels, 1993-1996, Dutch Interch. Aid, Zeist, The Netherlands, 1981-1990, Dutch Post Keynesiaw Association, The Netherlands, since 1992.
(Beyond Poverty and Affluence argues that, like a virus wh...)
(Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a...)
(Material Prosperity - Guaranteed Security - Revolution - ...)
(Beyond Poverty & Affluence - Towards an Economy of Care)
(Book by Goudzwaard, Bob)
Rector Educational Center Dutch Labor Union, 1972-1981. Chairman, writer Political Program Christian Democrats, 1977. Second lieutenant Dutch Air Force, 1958-1959.
Member Dutch Academy of Sciences.
Married Zegerina Louisa Van Helden, March 25, 1959. Children: Theo, Mariette, Maurits Jan, Annelies.