Additional Information
Book Details
Abstract
The money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunch undermined capitalism's ability to ensure rising incomes and prosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change are fought tooth and nail by business as environmental crises continue.
We urgently need to combat those who say 'there is no alternative' to the current system, but what would an alternative look like? The contributors to Life Without Money argue that it is time radical, non-market models were taken seriously. The book brings together diverse voices presenting strong arguments against our money-based system's ability to improve lives and prevent environmental disaster. Crucially, it provides a direct strategy for undercutting capitalism by refusing to deal in money, and offers money-free models of governance and collective sufficiency.
Life Without Money is written by high-profile activist scholars, including Harry Cleaver, Ariel Salleh and John O'Neill, making it an excellent text for political economy and environmental courses, as well as an inspiring manifesto for those who want to take action.
'A timely contribution to an under-researched and under reported area of economics: the theory of money and proposals for alternatives to the globalised capitalist financial system'
Molly Scott Cato, Reader in Green Economics, Cardiff School of Management
'An indispensable collection for those who are bold enough to explore this dramatic prospect. Life Without Money is an essential guidebook for the great debate now unfolding and around which our hopes for a worthwhile future unfold'
Joel Kovel, author of Enemy of Nature (2002; 2007) and Overcoming Zionism (Pluto, 2007)
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| List of Boxes | vi | ||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | viii | ||
| 1. Use Value and Non-Market Socialism -Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman | 1 | ||
| Part 1: Critiques of Capitalism and Communism | 21 | ||
| 2. Money versus Socialism -Anitra Nelson | 23 | ||
| 3. Work Refusal and Self-Organisation -Harry Cleaver | 47 | ||
| 4. Money, Markets and Ecology -John O'Neill | 70 | ||
| 5. The Value of a Synergistic Economy -Ariel Salleh | 94 | ||
| 6. The Gift Economy -Terry Leahy | 111 | ||
| Part 2: Activism and Experiments | 137 | ||
| 7. Non-Market Socialism -Adam Buick | 139 | ||
| 8. Self-Management and Efficiency -Mihailo Markovic | 161 | ||
| 9. Labour Credit - Twin Oaks Community -Kat Kinkade with the Twin Oaks Community | 173 | ||
| 10. The Money-Free Autonomy of Spanish Squatters -Claudio Cattaneo | 192 | ||
| 11. Contract and Converge -Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman | 214 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 235 | ||
| Index | 237 |