ABSTRACT
As explained, before trying to design a desirable economic system, clarifying and justifying goals is important both because it was important to clear yardsticks against which to measure the proposals later in the book. Part I takes into account the fact that when people consume and work, there are preference “development” as well as preference “fulfillment” effects without making arbitrary value judgments. Part I also explains the concepts of economic democracy, economic justice, solidarity , variety and environmentally sustainable. Finally, since many who are dissatisfied with neoliberal capitalism today favor social democratic capitalism instead, it became necessary to devote some “preliminary time” to explain a concrete, comprehensive proposal for how an economic system that goes beyond social democracy. The purpose of Chapter 2 was to explain to those who support social democratic reforms why they should also take interest in what “beyond social democracy” might look like.
