Debt Or Democracy - Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice

Informationen zum Autor Mary Mellor is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, where she was founding Chair of the University's Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She has published extensively on alternative economics integrating socialist, feminist and green perspectives. Her books include Debt or Democracy (Pluto, 2015), The Future of Money (Pluto, 2010) and The Politics of Money (Pluto, 2002). Klappentext In the wake of the global financial crisis, most of the discussion has been focused on questions of debt. And the response, almost uniformly, has been austerity and privatization: cuts to services that have been painted as forms of reckless spending by a bloated public sector. In Debt or Democracy , Mary Mellor turns the whole conversation upside down, showing that the important question is not who owes what, but who controls the creation and circulation of money in the first place. When the problem is examined from that angle, it becomes clear that privatization, far from being the answer to our problem, is the very source of it--the subordination of public finance to private interest. A direct challenge to conventional economic thinking, Debt or Democracy offers a bracing new analysis of our economic crisis and offers cogent, radical alternatives to create a more just and sustainable economic future. Zusammenfassung A clear case for the common ownership of money as a solution to the financial crisis

Product details

• Authors: Mary Mellor, Mellor Mary
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780745335544
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3554-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Environmental Economics, Welfare economics, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures