The Past & Present Reading Group is discussing, in the first half of 2024, Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. This work is often considered a crucial read to grasp Marx’s methods of analysis, with Marx diving off Hegel as one might a springboard. Yet our group has immediately plunged into deep swirling [...]
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I Growth proliferates — demanding degrading, derailing, deficient destroying, degenerating, detonating demineralising depressing. Degrowth devolves — deconstructs decentralises, deinstitutionalises, decolonises dematerialises, demilitarises [...]
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'This is Just Practice' reads the sub-title of Marisa Holmes' book Organizing Occupy Wall Street, which is the latest addition to the Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias series. The book reverberates with revolutionary intent: a threat and a promise.
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I find the constant coining of new terms tiresome. But in writing Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy, I felt the need to re-define my nonmarket socialist position in a more constructive and less reactive way as ‘real valuism’, with ‘real value’ as a basic economic term. I hasten to add [...]
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Sirens of our times are pregnant with urgency — unprecedented floods, fires, species extinctions and the Covid-19 pandemic — all linked one way or the other with capitalism, global heating and the ways we live. In 2020, I published my most successful article to date, if success can be [...]
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The idea of a ‘reconstructed social democracy’ is at the core of Australian economist Mike Berry’s most recent work, which highlights the principle of justice. Here justice is a pair of scales balancing — on the one side and the other — workers versus capitalist owners and managers, the [...]
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Degrowth is on the agenda as a set of theories increasingly encountered in scholarly articles and books as well as activist journalism. Yet degrowth is a much maligned and misinterpreted concept and approach, and is especially difficult for economists to handle. Is that because using money [...]
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Anitra Nelson, RMIT University and Brian Coffey, RMIT University
This article is part of a series on rebalancing the human–nature interactions that are central to the study and practice of ecological economics, which is the focus of the 2019 ANZSEE Conference in Melbourne [...]
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