Nonviolent Political Economy: Theory and Applications

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgments Foreword by Johan Galtung Preface Introduction: nonviolent political economy: a research and teaching agenda Introduction The violence of conventional economic thinking The idea of nonviolent economy Extended approaches to the conflict The bioeconomics, its derivatives, and some unrealizable agendas Moral and ethical economy of civil disobedience The political economy of love (and other non-egoistic motivations) Extended perspectives of choice Bibliography PART I: A critique of conventional and violent economy 1. Money, credit and interest in light of unconventional perspective Introduction Reconsidering the myth of barter, money and credit The origin of money interest in light of structural and functional decay Debt creation and control: miscellaneous problems Conclusion Acknowledgement Bibliography 2. The economic nature of man disputed: anthropology and the ‘homo oeconomicus’ John Locke’s provocation Towards a rational world: evolutionism Ethnographic economy: organised wilderness and the culture of social bonding French Neo-Marxism: back to production, re-production and exploitation From the global margins towards the capitalist ‘heart of darkness’ Reaching out Notes References PART II: Self-organized collective action and preservation of commons 3. Emergent collective action: complexifying the world Introduction (Classical) collective action theory: a state-of-the-art The concept of emergence, revisited What is emergent collective action? An argument for some cases about ECA Humanity’s most astounding challenge ever: conceiving and making future possible A non-conclusive conclusion Note Acknowledgements References 4. Self-organized collective action in the Floating Island Project Introduction The Floating Island Project Chronology of the Floating Island Project Evaluations: environmental and economic The SeaZone Acts Decentralizing governance to manage problems of the commons Conclusion: complex voluntary governance Notes Acknowledgements References 5. Buds in the capitalist desert: emerging socio-economic forms that are changing the world Introduction: capitalist world-system crisis or systemic metamorphosis? From social resistance and the construction of alternatives: the emergence of Social and Solidarity Economies ECOSOL as an Emerging Social Movement: metamorphosis of the alternative solidarity economies Final reflections: other economies are possible, or changing the world from the small Bibliography PART III: Ecological economy, political ecology and degrowth 6. Sustainable consumption and ecological sufficiency: discourses and power relations Introduction Discourses on sustainable consumption The new discourse of ecological sufficiency Discourses compatible with ecological sufficiency Theoretical approaches Public policies Final remarks References 7. Holistic peace: a new paradigm for business Introduction Business and peace The transrational business paradigm Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References PART IV: Gandhian and Buddhist political economy 8. Gandhi, economics, and the new story Some background Conclusion and applications Notes References 9. Buddhist principles for a non-violent economy Non-violence, the creed of Mahatma Gandhi Small Is Beautiful A Middle Way for the Market Place Buddhist economic strategy Conclusions: from non-violent business practices to a nonviolent political economy References PART V: Disarmament, post-military systems of defense and transition towards a nonviolent social order 10. Civilian-based defense systems: leveraging economic power to fulfill security treaty obligations Economic well-being vs. security: a priority dilemma How helpful is CBD in countering potential security threats? If/when States transition to CBD, what are the likely impacts? How can CBD be better used? What are the main challenges in implementing CBD? Are there any inspirational case studies? Conclusions Notes References 11. Systemic violence in Syria and the usefulness of political economy Introduction: the ingredients of violence Historical, cultural, and political violence Masculinity, Koran, and sexuality Historic/legal incitements to extreme violence Epilogue Notes Bibliography 12. How to break the spell? Sources of violence and conflict in an oil rent based economy: a case study of Iraq and the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan Introduction State of research Theoretical framework Environmental determinism Geographical conditionalities Historical path dependency Bad governance The case study: Iraq and the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan Conclusion Notes References Index