Economy for and Against Democracy /

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

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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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.)
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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

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