Citation
Choudhury, M.A. (2014), "Special issues 1: Philanthropy, social economy, and a changing world-system", Humanomics, Vol. 30 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/H-01-2014-0007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Special issues 1: Philanthropy, social economy, and a changing world-system
Article Type: Guest editorial From: Humanomics, Volume 30, Issue 1
From capitalism and a precursor world-system based on corporatism, governance, and political dissent comes the call for global change – in many respects that remain intertwined. Yet there is another voice out there in this morass of power and conflict; dissent and assertiveness. It is the vehement cry of the small but affirming against the large.
The study of the social economy and change are in the area of stemming down the sparks from the anvil of conflict. Such a study is seen to go together between philanthropy and social emergence at the grassroots. To study such deepening change it is necessary to examine the deconstruction that is taking place in the global scene from the monolithic large and powerful into the small but powerful. Change thus, is not coming from the side of big governments, mighty rulers, and high corporatism. It is also not based on global governance by monolith groups like the Group of Seven and the Group of Four; or even by the international development and financing institutions. These are stories of the old order of power, dominance, and questioning.
Examining the theme of social economy, global politico-economic change, and the future perspective of philanthropy as resource for change altogether add up to the quest for a new theory of the world-system. Within such emergent world-system rests the study and the steering of a new theory of political economy. The embedding of moral, ethical, and social values; and the conflict against the passing old order means that, the optimal theory and steady-state concept of traditional economic theory will not work in such an alternative mighty difference.
It is in this and similar areas of quest for a new way of explaining the world of complexity, re-emergence, and continuous change with coordination between the role players where humanomics as an epistemological study of the foundations of heterodox economic and social thinking steps in.
This particular issue 1 of the planned four plus issues of Special Issue of Humanomics, International Journal of Systems and Ethics (HIJSE) Vols. 30-31, 2013-2014 aims at the first set of stated issues. The papers presented in it thus take the reader from the side of the presumed monolithic large and powerful into its deconstruction into the small and powerful. Subsequent issues of this special issue series will join in where the first issue leaves off.
Masudul Alam Choudhury
Guest Editor