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Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Costas Panayotakis
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Description for Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Paperback. Powerful challenge to the current neoliberal economic orthodoxy. Asserts that economic democracy should be the new guiding principle for humanity. Series: The Future of World Capitalism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is in fact a result of the social and economic processes of the capitalist system.
The overriding importance of the logic of capital accumulation accounts for the fact that capitalism is not able to make a rational use of scarce resources and the productive potential at the disposal of human society. Instead, capitalism produces grotesque inequalities and unnecessary human suffering, a toxic consumerist culture that fails to satisfy, ... Read more
The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is in fact a result of the social and economic processes of the capitalist system.
The overriding importance of the logic of capital accumulation accounts for the fact that capitalism is not able to make a rational use of scarce resources and the productive potential at the disposal of human society. Instead, capitalism produces grotesque inequalities and unnecessary human suffering, a toxic consumerist culture that fails to satisfy, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
The Future of World Capitalism
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745330990
SKU
V9780745330990
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About Costas Panayotakis
Costas Panayotakis is Professor of Latin at the University of Glasgow. He is the Book Review editor of the international journal Capitalism Nature Socialism and the author of Remaking Scarcity (Pluto, 2011).
Reviews for Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
'Combines theoretical boldness and the determination to extend Marxian theory. It deserves to be read as another impressive product of the global rethinkings of Marxism now engaged in building a Marxism for the twenty-first century'
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 'An extremely scholarly, insightful and well-argued contribution - with ecology and feminism given ... Read more
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 'An extremely scholarly, insightful and well-argued contribution - with ecology and feminism given ... Read more