Market, schmarket : building the post-capitalist economy / Molly Scott Cato ; with cartoons by Polyp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cato, Molly Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Environmental economics.

Markets.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Sustainable development.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : New Clarion Press, 2006.

Summary:

A challenge to motivated, educated citizens to stop bemoaning the disasters being wrought by the capitalist economy and start building an alternative, this book anatomizes the central foundations of the globalized economy--the market, trade, money, and work--and proposes sustainable and humane alternatives. Rather than supplying further evidence that capitalism is destroying lives and destroying our planet, the focus here is on solutions, including worker cooperatives for the production and distribution of goods; radically reducing the trade in goods and basing what remains on the twin principles of trade subsidiarity and fair trade. The foremost message is that capitalism is a recent and insecure template for organizing economic life, and practical alternatives are both necessary and achievable.

Contents:

1 Warning the Frog: An Anatomy of Market Failure 1

2 How Perfect is the Neoclassical Market? 19

3 We Have to Learn to Share: Mutual Approaches to the Economy 37

4 From Free Trade to Trade Subsidiarity 59

5 Looking After your Own Doorstep: Strengthening the Local Economy 87

6 Money: How it Works; Whom it Serves 111

7 Taking the Labour out of Work: Reconnecting Producers and Consumers 139

8 Together We Can Do Better Than This 160.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-201) and index.

ISBN:

1873797516

1873797508

OCLC:

63401484