1st Edition

Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom For a Market Culture Beyond Greed and Fear

By Rajni Bakshi Copyright 2012
496 Pages
by Routledge

496 Pages
by Routledge

Long before the financial meltdown and the red alert on climate change, some far-sighted innovators diagnosed the fatal flaws in an economic system driven by greed and fear. Across the global North and South, diverse people - financial wizards, economists, business people and social activists - have been challenging the "free market" orthodoxy. They seek to recover the virtues of... Read more

Prelude: A walk down Wall Street 1. The need to gather: rescuing bazaars from Goddess TINA 2. Self-interest and market failure: in search of a post-autistic economics 3. Can money work differently? community-created currencies 4. Competing compassionately: the freedom to cooperate 5. Cosmopolitan localism: Wall Street, Main Street and beyond 6. Who cares ... wins! Challenging the divine right of capital 7. Nature bats last: Earth as home or marketplace

Biography

Rajni Bakshi