Michael Blim is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His interests include the study of global capitalism, social theory, and aesthetics. He has done field research in Italy and the United States. Blim is the author of Made in Italy: Small-scale Industrialization and Its Consequences, and co-editor of Anthropology and the Global Factory.

Dr. Blim's book is written as an engaged introduction to the nature of the contemporary global economy. He argues for the centrality of equality as the key value in a world where economic growth has failed to decrease levels of inequality, and that such a situation is morally indefensible and requires a consideration of alternative forms of economy and society that would allow for considerable movement towards equality.

• Chapter 1 The World We Live InChapter 2 The Consequences of CapitalismChapter 3 Values and ActionChapter 4 Valuing EqualityChapter 5 Comparing ValuesChapter 6 Putting Values into EconomiesChapter 7 The Necessity to ChooseChapter 8 Equality among NationsChapter 9 Equality and Disadvantage AbroadChapter 10 Equality at HomeChapter 11 A Good-Enough EconomyChapter 12 Achieving Equality

Michael Blim is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His interests include the study of global capitalism, social theory, and aesthetics. He has done field research in Italy and the United States. Blim is the author of Made in Italy: Small-scale Industrialization and Its Consequences, and co-editor of Anthropology and the Global Factory.

Dr. Blim's book is written as an engaged introduction to the nature of the contemporary global economy. He argues for the centrality of equality as the key value in a world where economic growth has failed to decrease levels of inequality, and that such a situation is morally indefensible and requires a consideration of alternative forms of economy and society that would allow for considerable movement towards equality.

• Chapter 1 The World We Live InChapter 2 The Consequences of CapitalismChapter 3 Values and ActionChapter 4 Valuing EqualityChapter 5 Comparing ValuesChapter 6 Putting Values into EconomiesChapter 7 The Necessity to ChooseChapter 8 Equality among NationsChapter 9 Equality and Disadvantage AbroadChapter 10 Equality at HomeChapter 11 A Good-Enough EconomyChapter 12 Achieving Equality