Another Economy Is Possible: Culture And Economy In A Time Of Crisis [EPUB]

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Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life. A number of economic practices and organizations emerged in Europe and the United States that embodied alternative values: the value of life over the value of money; the effectiveness of cooperation over cut-throat competition; the social responsibility of corporations and responsible regulation by governments over the short-term speculative strategies that brought the economy to the brink of catastrophe. This book examines the blossoming of innovative new experiments in organizing work and life that emerged in the wake of the financial crisis: cooperatives, barter networks, ethical banking, community currencies, shared time banks, solidarity...

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  • Year: 2,017

  • City: Cambridge

  • Language: English

  • Identifier: 9781509517244,9781509517206,9781509517213,9781509517237,1509517219

  • Org File Size: 1,853,574

  • Extension: epub

  • Tags: Economics Financial crises

  • Toc: * Introduction * Chapter 1 Economy Is Culture, Sarah Banet-Weiser and Manuel Castells * Chapter 2 Economics Without Growth, Giorgos Kallis * Chapter 3 Analysis of Worldwide Community Economies for Sustainable Local Development, Sviatlana Hlebik * Chapter 4 Blockchain Dreams: Imagining Techno-economic Alternatives After Bitcoin, Lana Swartz * Chapter 5 Consumer Financial Services in the US: Why Banks May Not Be the Answer, Lisa Servon * Chapter 6 Commoning Against the Crisis, Angelos Varvarousis and Giorgos Kallis * Chapter 7 Alternative Economic Practices in Barcelona: Surviving the Crisis, Reinventing Life, Manuel Castells and Sviatlana Hlebik * Chapter 8 Imagining and Making Alternative Futures: Slow Cities as Sites for Anticipation and Trust, Sarah Pink and Kirsten Seale * Conclusion, Manuel Castells

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