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Geld ist ein Mittel zum Zweck. Es sollte uns dienen und uns das Leben erleichtern. Doch davon sind wir weit entfernt: Staatsschuldenkrise, Systembanken, Währungsspekulationen, Steueroasen Geld beherrscht unser Leben. Christian Felber, der mit der "Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie", einer alt…
Sie heißen Chiemgauer, WIR-Franken, Wörgler Wundergeld und Bitcoin. So unterschiedlich die Entstehung dieser Regional- oder Alternativwährungen ist, so gleichen sich doch ihre Ziele: Die Unabhängigkeit von den großen Währungen wie Euro oder Dollar. Denn das Vertrauen der Mensche…
"We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, Ecological, Economic) Change as …
The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theor…
Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world. Yet there is a danger that the debat…
"Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become ever more significant in recent years. The importance of such alternatives continues to be underlined by the recent global financial crisis, the ongoing social and political consequences of …
Philosophers and failures of the state -- Utopia and common ownership -- Cooperation, rationality, values -- Luxury and anarchism -- Planning -- Self-management -- Markets and socialism -- Shareholder socialism -- Universal basic income and basic capital -- Market economy plus w…
"Is there a feasible and desirable alternative to capitalism? Challenging capitalism has been somewhat taboo for academic economists since the collapse of communism. And yet it remains a hot question, not just because nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis, unempl…
"A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the ec…
