Economy for and Against Democracy / / ed. by Keith Hart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Farré, Albert,; Hart, Keith,; Laterza, Vito,; Magure, Booker,; Ortiz, Horacio,; Powers, Theodore,; Rakopoulos, Theodoros,; Saiag, Hadrien,; Schraten, Jűrgen,; Sharp, John,; Sutton-Brown-Fox, Camille,; Wyk, Stephan Van,
• HerausgeberIn: Hart, Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Human Economy ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

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 examine the contradictory relationship between the economy and democracy and highlight the struggles and visions needed to make things more equitable. They explore how our collective aspirations for greater democracy might be informed by serious empirical research on the human economy today. If we want a better world, we must act on existing social realities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Economy versus Democracy -- Chapter 1 Habits of Austerity: Financialization and New Ways of Dealing with Money -- Chapter 2 What Financial Crisis? The Global Politics of Finance: Distributional Consequences and Legitimizing Narratives -- Chapter 3 Party Funding For and Against Democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa -- Part II The Struggle for Economic Democracy -- Chapter 4 Women as Mediators in Postwar Mozambique: Pushing Lobolo from Price to Propriety -- Chapter 5 Negotiating State and Market: The South African HIV/AIDS Movement and Social Change -- Chapter 6 Beyond the Market: White Workers in Pretoria -- Chapter 7 Waves of Unrest Wildcat Strikes and Possible Democratic Change in Swaziland -- Part III Visions of Human Economy and Democracy -- Chapter 8 Solidarity Economy in Contemporary Greece: ‘Movementality’, Economic Democracy and Social Reproduction during Crisis -- Chapter 9 Money for a Human Economy: A Reflection from Argentina -- Chapter 10 Human Economy: The Revolutionary Struggle for Happiness -- Chapter 11 Building a Human Economy Movement: The Precedent of Transnational Feminism -- References -- Index