Title: Beyond the Profits System
Description: This book makes clear why the desperate resort of Western governments to 'extraordinary measures' to try and avert economic collapse is bound to fail. It also forcefully demonstrates why our only hope of reversing the tide is to abandon the traditional economic logic of endlessly expanding production in favour of responding to the aspirations of ordinary people. Such a transformation, argues Shutt, would make possible the allocation of resources to more socially desirable ends, including the assurance of basic economic security for all as a right of citizenship.
Subjects: Economic development, Profit, Social aspects, Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, Capitalism, History, Organizational change, Democracy, Economic aspects, Économie politique, Histoire économique, Politique économique, Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009, Capitalisme, Economic policy, Economic theory & philosophy