Chapter 3

New Paradigms: In Search of a Third Way

Abstract

In this chapter, different types of growth are discussed, based on all economic activities in the gross national product or only by desirable activities in the measure of desirable activities. Wealth and inequality up to the present time are illustrated by a case study for Denmark, including assets such as education, health, material and economic possessions. This is followed by a critical appraisal of how goods and offered for sale, how salaried work is administered and how tolerance toward different ways of doing things is faring at present. The next section discusses constitutions, departing from a historical exposition of the major steps taken in ancient Greece, France and the USA, ...

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