Editorial: Actual politics and the need of conceptual clarity

Abstract

The challenge of sustainability of all forms of life on this planet concerns directly the actors, agencies, and other forms of the sociopolitical/legal dimension of societies. This has been confirmed by all members of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in the past decade, who said to follow the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the UN (2015). As argued by Marco Ricceri (2019), with the Paris Agreement in mind, these member states presented a self-imposed and relevant assignment, which will or should function as their frame of reference. His analysis of the recent history of this platform was also based on the current characteristics of the social quality approach which also are relevant for this editorial (IASQ 2019).

Qualitative Mechanisms of Modern Economic System’s Development

“…At the same time, normative restrictions regulating economic activity are all values and socio-cultural, socio-environmental priorities of modern society, which are documented in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Human Development Goals, Sustainable Development Concepts, Decent Work Concepts and others, and indirectly implemented in modern mechanisms. economic efficiency through new social institutions: social trust, social quality [23], social responsibility and others. Based on this, the basic principle of the theoretical and reference model of qualitative economy is embodied in the mechanism of subjective influence of people and their associations through the formation and specificity of their constructive needs (according to the law of needs), economical use and optimization of production methods to create conditions to improve the quality of their lives and the growth of human potential within the value-normative field, which indirectly allows to influence the conditions of their existence.…”