Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A seven-volume series

Neva Goodwin, Series Editor

In most of the world today, the issue is not whether or how to embrace capitalism, but how to make the best of it. The currently dominant capitalist values include competitive individualism, instrumental rationality, and material success. This Michigan Press series explores questions such as: Will these values suffice as a basis for social organizations that can meet human and environmental needs in the twenty-first century? What would it mean for capitalist systems to evolve toward an emphasis on other values, such as cooperation, altruism, responsibility, and concern for the future?

Titles in the Evolving Values Series:

• Volume 7: Are Humans Misfits in Market Democracies?

  2015

• Volume 6: After the End of History: The Curious Fate of American Materialism

  2005

• Volume 5: Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance

  2005

• Volume 4: It’s Legal but It Ain’t Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries

  2005

• Volume 3: Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

  2000

• Volume 2: A Civil Economy: Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century

  2000

• Volume 1: As If the Future Mattered: Translating Social and Economic Theory into Human Behavior

  1996