Remaking Scarcity

From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy

AvCostas Panayotakis

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-12
Mått:135 x 211 x 15 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Future of World Capitalism
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745330990

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Costas Panayotakis is Professor of Latin at the University of Glasgow. He is the Book Review editor of the international journal Capitalism Nature Socialism and the author of Remaking Scarcity (Pluto, 2011).

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'Combines theoretical boldness and the determination to extend Marxian theory. It deserves to be read as another impressive product of the global rethinkings of Marxism now engaged in building a Marxism for the twenty-first century'

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Joel KovelPreface1. Capitalism, Scarcity and Economic Democracy2. The Neoclassical Approach to Scarcity3. Scarcity and Capital Accumulation4. Scarcity, Capitalist Exploitation, and Consumption5. Economic Democracy and the Multiplicity of Social Inequalities and Struggles6. Capitalism, Scarcity and Global Inequalities7. Scarcity and the Deepening Ecological Crisis8. Imagining Economic Democracy: Two Models9. The Way Forward: Economic Democratization as a Strategy of Reforms and Fundamental Social ChangeConclusionHumorous Appendix: Austerity Nut and His MessageNotesBibliographyIndex