Ebook: Remaking scarcity: from capitalist inefficiency to economic democracy
Author: Kovel Joel, Panayotakis Costas
- Tags: Economic policy--Citizen participation, Sustainable development--Citizen participation, Capitalism--Social aspects, Resource allocation, Scarcity, Supply and demand, Sustainable development -- Citizen participation, Capitalism -- Social aspects, Economic policy -- Citizen participation
- Series: Future of world capitalism
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
- City: London;New York;Winnipeg
- Language: English
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"The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is in fact a result of the social and economic processes of the capitalist system. The overriding importance of the logic of capital accumulation accounts for the fact that capitalism is not able to make a rational use of scarce resources and the productive potential at the disposal of human society. Instead, capitalism produces grotesque inequalities and unnecessary human suffering, a toxic consumerist culture that fails to satisfy, and a deepening ecological crisis. 'Remaking Scarcity' is a powerful challenge to the current economic orthodoxy. It asserts the core principle of economic democracy, that all human beings should have an equal say over the priorities of the economic system, as the ultimate solution to scarcity and ecological crisis."--Publisher's website.;Foreword / Joel Kovel -- Preface -- Capitalism, scarcity, and economic democracy -- The neoclassical approach to scarcity -- Scarcity and capital accumulation -- Scarcity, capitalist exploitation, and consumption -- Economic democracy and the multiplicity of social inequalities and struggles -- Capitalism, scarcity, and global inequalities -- Scarcity and the deepening ecological crisis -- Imagining economic democracy: two models -- The way forward: economic democratization as a strategy of reforms and fundamental social change -- Conclusion -- Humorous appendix: Austerity Nut and his message.
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