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Liberating the Economy from the Market : Between Induced Desire and Insatiable Growth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavanderos, Leonardo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Philosophy.
- Economics.
- Sustainability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.
- Summary:
- Authors Leonardo Lavanderos and Alejandro Malpartida dismantle the ideological scaffolding of contemporary capitalism, exposing its structural contradictions and radical disconnection from the conditions that sustain life. This book is not merely a critique--it deconstructs and reconfigures, proposing an economy that transcends the reductionist mechanics of supply and demand in order to restore the essential link between culture and nature. The authors discuss how conventional economics - obsessed with abstract metrics and empty indicators - erased the relational and ecological dimensions that underpin the viability of both human and non-human communities. The book is an intellectual rebuff to those who have turned the economy into a machine of entropy, uprooting, and devastation. Drawing from the concept of ecopoiesis, the authors call for a paradigmatic shift toward a regenerative, relational, and systemically sustainable economy. An essential text for students and researchers in economics, sustainability, sociology, and societal futures.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Liberating the Economy from the Market
- The Economy as a Relation from its Origins
- The Isomorphism Trap: Confusing Interaction and Relation
- Critique of the Labor Theory of Value and the Energy Theory of Value from the Difference between Interaction and Relation
- The Theory of Energy Value: Confusion between Physics and Living
- From Repetition to Progress: Spiral Economy as the Evolution of Circular Thinking
- GDP Test of Fire: Circular Economy vs. Spiral Economy
- Relational Economics as an Alternative
- Capitalism of Loneliness: The Commodification of Knowledge and Cognitive Alienation
- Overcoming the Crisis
- The Theft of Knowledge and Imagination in the Capitalism of Loneliness
- Stealing Knowledge
- Stealing Imagination and Its Impact on Human Creativity
- Systemic Viability and Relational Value as Alternatives
- The Importance of Socially Necessary Knowledge and Relational Value for Sustainability
- Relational Value as a Precursor to Use and Exchange Value
- Relational Value and the Collaborative Economy: Towards a New Ethics of Exchange
- Rebuilding Knowledge and Recovering Imagination
- The Rupture of the Culture-Nature Relation
- Knowledge as the Precursor to Labor
- Relation Between Knowledge, Technology, and Surplus Value
- Relational Aging under Neoliberalism: Epigenetics, Ecopoiesis, and Cybernetic Perspectives
- Aging, epigenetics, and stress in the neoliberal context
- Ecopoiesis and aging as a relational configuration
- Third-order cybernetics and aging as relational dysregulation.
- Medicalization of aging and production of surplus value
- Poverty, epigenetics, and the biological inscription of inequality
- Towards a relational reconfiguration of aging
- Saving capitalism: the childhood disease of economic progressivity
- The "childhood disease of progressivism" and its limits.
- Cybernetics of Capital
- The Destruction of Oikos: Commodifying Knowledge
- The Oikos
- The relational bases of neoliberalism in Chile
- The strategy of commercialization of the university
- From Cybersyn to Cyber-Rel: Considerations for Cybernetic Design Thinking in 21st-Century Post socialism
- The foundations of post-socialism are and always will be relational. The viable relational system.
- Original ideas: distinctions based on Beer
- Beer invariances
- Complexity appears
- The concept of relational viability
- The Viable Relational System (VRS)
- The concept of unnecessary variety
- On the origin of the unrequired variety
- Variety not required in post-socialism.
- Developing models in the secrecy of the neoliberal model
- The cyberpolitics of ecopoiesis
- Ecological Viability and Cybernetic of Ayllu
- Bases of the relational conception of the culture-nature unit
- The concept of living well, Sumak Kawsay.
- Sumak allpa and ecological viability
- Ecological viability, from Ecosystem to Ecotome
- The Ayllu ecotome and its relational cybernetics
- The construction of the Ecotome
- The Ayllu as Ecotome
- From the Market to the Oikos: Communitarianism and Viabilism as Poetics of Resistance and Transformation
- The Common: The Story of Relations
- What They Have Made Us Forget and We Have Forgotten
- The Road to Remembrance
- Relational Communitarianism vs. Western Communitarianism
- Fundamental Distinctions.
- Culture-nature: Constitutive relation vs. Dualistic fragmentation
- Community Purpose: Moral Regulation vs. Relational Viability
- Adaptation: Normativity vs. Ecospontaneity
- Relational Communitarianism as a Viable Alternative
- Relational Transformations in the Neoliberal Crisis: Territoriality and Systemic Viability
- References.
- Notes:
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- ISBN:
- 1-83711-239-8
- OCLC:
- 1521497616
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