E-bok, Engelska, 2013

Property for People, Not for Profit

Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital

Av Ulrich Duchrow, Franz J. Hinkelammert

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The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. The authors describe the historically specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. They trace this history from earliest historical times and show how, in the hands of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in particular, the notion of private property took on its absolutist nature and most extreme form - a form which neoliberal economics is now imposing on humanity worldwide through the pressures of globalization. They argue that avoiding the destruction of people's ways of living and of Nature requires reshaping our notions of private property. They look at practical ways for social and ecumenical movements to press for alternatives.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2013-07-04
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 256
Filformat: EPUB
Kopieringsskydd: LCP
ISBN: 9781848137592
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Ulrich Duchrow is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is the co-founder of Kairos Europa, an ecumenical grassroots network striving for economic justice.Franz J. Hinkelammert is a German economist who has spent much of his working life in Latin America. He has had some of his work published in English - notably 'The Ideological Weapons of Death' (1986). Much of his work has appeared in Spanish.

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I highly recommend Property for People, Not for Profit. Capitalism today is too often thought of as natural or God-given when a careful examination of the history of its development and the evolution of religious thought shows that there are other ways to think about how our economy and society should be organized. The most valuable contribution of this book, however, is to show how another world is possible. Duchrow and Hinkelammert also challenge the churches to renounce the worship of Mammon and serve the God of life by supporting social movements working for alternatives.

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