Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freedom to plan : on Kapp's institutional outlook / Michele Cangiani -- Political democracy and social costs : reading K.W. Kapp's "Political economy" today / Regine Heidenreich -- Social costs, social rights and the limits of free market capitalism : a re-reading of Kapp / Maurizio Franzini -- Increasing complexity in the "new" economy and coordination requirements beyond the "market" : blockages and lock-ins as social costs, and a new governance to mitigate them / Wolfram Elsner -- Policy for social costs : Kapp v. neoclassical economics / James A. Swaney -- Improved allocation through environmental taxes? Theory and reality : the example of Germany / Gustav M. Obermair and Lorenz Jarass -- Unemployment as a social cost / Paolo Ramazzotti amd Marco Rangone -- Social costs and human health : Kapp's approach and its growing relevance today / Pietro Frigato -- Impact of economic and labour market policy on health : health costs of the "transition process" in Central and Eastern Europe / Richard Peter and Johannes Siegrist.