Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/329939 
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Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP) [ISSN:] 2052-7772 [Volume:] 22 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 239-251
Publisher: 
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham
Abstract: 
There are at least three existential challenges to contemporary societies, as we know them, namely, first, the complete rupture of the social pact, which characterized Glorious Decades after WWII in most of Western societies; and second, the deepening of the patterns of informatization and 'intelligent' automation with the associated modifications in labor relations and mechanisms of social control. All that, third, is coupled with a climate crisis that might have well reached a tipping point toward a global ecological disaster. The end of the social pact went together with the ubiquitous diffusion of a neoliberal ideology, which poisoned all the domains of social and political life. This paper discusses such existential challenges, together with some urgent policy way outs.
Subjects: 
Social democratic pact
Income and power distributions
Social conflict
AI-based technologies
Neoliberalism
Green New Deal
JEL: 
A14
P16
O30
Z13
Z18
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