The value of nothing : how to reshape market society and redefine democracy
Patel, Raj
The value of nothing : how to reshape market society and redefine democracy / Raj Patel - New York : Picador , c2009 - 250 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
The flaw -- Becoming homo economicus -- The corporation -- On diamonds and water -- Anti-economic man -- We are all commoners -- The countermovement and the right to have rights -- Democracy in the city -- Back to food sovereignty -- Anton's blindness.
Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced and reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics but rather the larger failure of a democratically bankrupt political system. The solution he offers: discover democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.
9780312429249
2009041546
Free enterprise
Democracy
Economics
HB95 / .P3185 2009
330.122 PAT
The value of nothing : how to reshape market society and redefine democracy / Raj Patel - New York : Picador , c2009 - 250 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
The flaw -- Becoming homo economicus -- The corporation -- On diamonds and water -- Anti-economic man -- We are all commoners -- The countermovement and the right to have rights -- Democracy in the city -- Back to food sovereignty -- Anton's blindness.
Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced and reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics but rather the larger failure of a democratically bankrupt political system. The solution he offers: discover democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.
9780312429249
2009041546
Free enterprise
Democracy
Economics
HB95 / .P3185 2009
330.122 PAT
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