Beyond the profits system : possibilities for a post-capitalist era / Harry Shutt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shutt, Harry, author.

Series:

New Economics.

New Economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Profit--Social aspects.

Profit.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--History--20th century.

Economic development--History--20th century.

Economic development.

Organizational change.

Democracy--Economic aspects.

Democracy.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book makes clear why the desperate resort of Western governments to 'extraordinary measures' to try and avert economic collapse is bound to fail. It also forcefully demonstrates why our only hope of reversing the tide is to abandon the traditional economic logic of endlessly expanding production in favour of responding to the aspirations of ordinary people. Such a transformation, argues Shutt, would make possible the allocation of resources to more socially desirable ends, including the assurance of basic economic security for all as a right of citizenship.

Contents:

About the author; Introduction; 1 Anatomy of a crisis; 2 The official response: a study in delusion; 3 Facing up to systemic failure; 4 The price of profit-driven growth; 5 A new model: ending the tyranny of production; 6 Evolving a more rational economic system; 7 Ideology for the twenty-first century: cooperation, creativeness, equality; 8 Deepening democracy; 9 Capitulation or catastrophe?; Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786612543425

9781350218635

1350218634

9781848138285

1848138288

9781842774007

184277400X

9781282543423

1282543423

9781848134188

1848134185

OCLC:

649831435