People first economics
By: edited by David Ransom and Vanessa Baird
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781906523237
Subjects: International economic relations; Citizen participation; Democracy; Social aspects; Economics; Social justice; Capitalism; Anti-globalization movement; Globalization; Economic forecasting; Economic policy; Economic aspects; Economic history
Description: Presents a collection of essays by such authors as Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Evo Morales discussing the economic policies and conditions of the world today.
Notes: "World Changing."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- David Ransom and Vanessa Baird; title: The age of possibility  -- David Ransom; title: Beyond the crash--a green New Deal  -- Ann Pettifor; title: Not as it seems  -- Noam Chomsky; title: Public revolt builds against rip-off rescue plans  -- Naomi Klein; title: No more of the same  -- Susan George; title: Goodbye Washington consensus, hello global social democracy?  -- Walden Bello; title: Naked emperors  -- Vanessa Baird; title: The trouble with interest  -- Tarek el Diwany; title: Starting afresh  -- Peter Stalker; title: Making money  -- George Monbiot; title: Can pay, won't pay  -- John Christensen; title: Rich get poorer, poor disappear  -- Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Jobs first  -- Yash Tandon; title: Equality is better--for everyone  -- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett; title: To live well  -- Nicola Bullard; title: How to save the world, life and humanity  -- Evo Morales; title: How to take part in the economy  -- Michael Albert; title: Open source anti-capitalism  -- Derek Wall; title: Climate choices  -- Danny Chivers; title: Carbon charade  -- Patrick Bond; title: Now, a real chance to tackle global poverty  -- John Hilary; title: Action and contracts --; title: Index.