Nonviolent Political Economy: Theory and Applications

ISBN-13: 9781138502840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Freddy Cante; Wanda Tatiana Torres

Opis

Nonviolent Political Economy offers a set of theoretical solutions and practical guidelines to build an economy of nonviolence which implies a social state of peacefulness, involving minimal violence and minimal destruction of nature. 

Spis treści

Introductory Chapter: Nonviolent Political Economy: A Research and Teaching Agenda.  PART I A critique of conventional and violent economy.  1. Money, credit and interest in light of unconventional perspective.  2. The economic nature of man disputed – Anthropology and the "homo oeconomicus".  PART II Self-organized collective action and preservation of commons.  3. Emergent collective action: complexifying the world.  4. Self-Organized Collective Action in the Floating Island Project.  5. Buds in the capitalist desert. Emerging socio-economic forms that are changing the world.  PART III Ecological economy, political ecology and degrowth.  6. Sustainable consumption and ecological sufficiency: discourses and power relations.  7. Holistic peace: A new paradigm for business.  PART IV Gandhian and Buddhist political economy.  8. Gandhi, economics and the new story.  9. Buddhist principles for a nonviolent economy.  PART V Disarmament, post-military systems of defense and transition towards a nonviolent social order.  10. Civilian-based defense systems: leveraging economic power to fulfill security treaty obligations.  11. Systemic Violence in Syria and the Usefulness of Political Economy.  12. How to break the spell? Sources of violence and conflict in an oil-rent based economy. A case study of Iraq and the autonomous region of Kurdistan