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The value of nothing: how to reshape market society and redefine democracy

By Patel , Raj

Book information

Publisher
Macmillan;Picador
Year
2010
ISBN
9780312429249, 031242924X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
476 kB (487775 bytes)
Edition
1. Picador ed
Pages
250 s. : portr\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Democracy;Economics;Free enterprise

Description

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

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