Economy for and Against Democracy

Keith Hart is International Director of the Human Economy Programme at the University of Pretoria. His recent books include The Human Economy: A Citizen's Guide, Economic Anthropology, People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis and Money in a Human Economy.

“Economy for and Against Democracy is a must-read for economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and anyone interested in the true meaning of democracy and searching for initiatives to promote a more democratic world society.” • International Social Science Review“[This book] sets out debates and insights that have been long forgotten in social science as a result of the domination of orthodox economics. Absent is the arcane mathematical formalism that commands mainstream enquiry into economics; in these chapters, the study of economics speaks to – and of – people and their daily struggles. In a phrase not to be killed with over-use: this is a liberating read.” • Peter Vale, University of Johannesburg

• IntroductionKeith HartPART I: ECONOMY VERSUS DEMOCRACYChapter 1. Habits of austerity: financialization and new ways of dealing with moneyJürgen SchratenChapter 2. What financial crisis? The global politics of finance: distributional consequences and legitimizing narrativesHoracio OrtizChapter 3. Party funding for and against democracy in Zimbabwe and South AfricaBooker MagurePART II: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACYChapter 4. Women as mediators in post-war Mozambique: pushing lobolo from price to proprietyAlbert FarréChapter 5. Negotiating state and market: the South African HIV/AIDS movement and social changeTheodore PowersChapter 6. Beyond the market: the case of white workers in PretoriaJohn Sharp & Stephan Van WykChapter 7. Waves of unrest: wildcat strikes and possible democratic change in SwazilandVito LaterzaPART III: VISIONS OF HUMAN ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACYChapter 8. Solidarity economy in contemporary Greece: ‘movementality’, economic democracy and social reproductionTheodoros RakopoulosChapter 9. Money for a human economy: a reflection from ArgentinaHadrien SaiagChapter 10. Human economy: the revolutionary struggle for happinessKeith HartChapter 11. Building a human economy movement: the precedent of transnational feminismCamille Sutton-BrownNotes on authorsReferencesIndex