The Value Of Nothing
How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
$29.25
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2011
Summary
‘Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.’
Credit has crunched, debt has turned toxic, the gears of the world economy have ground to a halt. Yet despite its failures, the same market-driven ideas are being applied to everything from famine to climate change. We need to ask again one of the most fundamental questions a society ever addresses: why do things cost what they do? Radical, original, nimbly argued, The Value of Nothing draws on ideas from history, philosophy, psychology and agriculture to show how we can build an economically and environmentally sound future.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846272189 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846272181 |
| Author: | Raj Patel |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Portobello Books |
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Raj Patel
RAJ PATEL was educated at Oxford, the LSE, and Cornell. A former fellow at Yale and Berkeley, he now holds a Visiting Fellowship at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has worked for the World Bank, interned at the WTO, consulted for the UN, and protested against his former employers. He is one of only a few activists trusted to work with the Via Campesina peasant movement. His first book was Stuffed & Starved.
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