Bücher von Koen Byttebier

The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer. In the past decade the world has witnessed some severe financial and economic crises, espe-cially the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The author states that the socio-economic order has in the past four to five decades been thoroughly redesigned, generally favouring models that prio-ritize the free market over the public interest or even, more generally, government operation. He works out that during four to five decades, globalized, capitalist societies are facing a multiplicity of fundamental problems, such as: (1) increasing debt that severely burdens both the private and public sectors; (2) persistent poverty and an ever-increasing polarization between rich and poor, in addition to (3) intractable environmental problems that, fifty years after the Club of Rome's report entitled 'Limits to growth' (1972), has dragged the world into what in recent years has been referred to as "climate change."The book explains why all this is the direct result of value choices made from the late Middle Ages onwards, when in the Western world the societal models of that time were increasingly abandoned for a societal model that came to rely on the primacy of economic interests. The book not only subjects the ethical choices but also examines various problems it has caused and probes for possible ways out.This is an open access book.

La forma perjudicial del orden socioeconómico mundial. El capitalismo, sus doctrinas subyacentes y principales instrumentos jurídicos. El papel del neoliberalismo. El neoliberalismo y el modelo de Estado de bienestar. Los desafíos sin respuesta de nuestros tiempos. El problema de la deuda no abordado. Problemas con el medio ambiente. La pobreza y la creciente brecha entre ricos y pobres. Algunas ideas sobre una salida. Hacia un nuevo modelo de estado de atención. El amanecer de una nueva humanidad. Conclusiones.

This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western economies.