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Economy for and against democracy /

Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The comparative essays and case studies of this volume...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hart, Keith (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Colección:Human economy ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Keith Hart
  • Economy versus democracy
  • Habits of austerity : financialization and new ways of dealing with money / Jürgen Schraten
  • What financial crisis? The global politics of finance : distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives / Horacio Ortiz
  • Party funding for and against democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa / Booker Magure
  • The struggle for economic democracy
  • Women as mediators in postwar Mozambique : pushing lobolo from price to propriety / Albert Farré
  • Negotiating state and market: the South African HIV/AIDS movement and social change / Theodore Powers
  • Beyond the market : White workers in Pretoria / John Sharp and Stephan Van Wyk
  • Waves of unrest : wildcat strikes and possible democratic change in Swaziland / Vito Laterza
  • Visions of human economy and democracy
  • Solidarity economy in contemporary Greece : 'movementality', economic democracy and social reproduction during crisis / Theodoros Rakopoulos
  • Money for a human economy : a reflection from Argentina
  • Human economy : the revolutionary struggle for happiness / Keith Hart
  • Building a human economy movement : the precedent of transnational feminism / Camille Sutton-Brown-Fox.