Economics After Capitalism : A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future

Warm conspiracies and cold concepts -- Vaccinating against anti-capitalism : Stiglitz, Soros and friends -- White collar global crime syndicate : Korten, Klein and other anti-corporatists -- Small is beautiful : green economics -- Planet Earth money martyred : social credit, positive money and monetary reform -- Imperialism unlimited : Marxisms -- The tribe of moles : autonomism, anarchism and empire -- Ecosocialist alternatives : Marx's ecology -- Women of the world unite : feminist economics -- Life after capitalism : alternatives, structures, strategies.;'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world and not just one alternative, but many. Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream economics and capitalism from Adam Smith onwards, Economics After Capitalism provides a step-by-step guide to various writers, movements and schools of thought, critical of neoliberal globalisation. These range from Keynesian-inspired reformists such as George Soros and Joseph Stiglitz, critics of inequality like Thomas Piketty and Amaitya Sen, to more radical voices including Naomi Klein, Marxists such as David Harvey, anarchists, and autonomists including Toni Negri and Michael Hardt. By providing a clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism, Derek Wall successfully demonstrates that an open source eco-socialist alternative to rampant climate change, elite rule and financial chaos is not just necessary, but possible. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the New Edition by David Bollier -- Foreword to the First Edition by Nandor Tanczos -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Warm Conspiracies and Cold Concepts -- The Anti-capitalist Movement -- Globalisation, Capitalism and the Arguments for Neo-liberalism -- What's Wrong with Capitalism? -- Diversity or Chaos: Cataloguing Different Anti-capitalisms -- Debating Apocalypse -- 2 Vaccinating against Anti-capitalism: Stiglitz, Soros and Friends -- Stiglitz and Soros -- Stiglitz and Soros on Financial Crisis, Recession and Austerity -- From Keynes to Bretton Woods -- Against Washington -- Asymmetric Information and Reflexivity -- 1001 Uses for a Dead Karl Polanyi -- Anti-empire -- Vaccinating Against Anti-capitalism -- 3 White Collar Global Crime Syndicate: Korten, Klein and Other Anti-corporatists -- The Rise of the Corporate Criminal -- The Hidden History of Humanity -- Unnatural Monopolies -- Global Government Inc. -- Outsourcing -- Adam Smith's Ecotopia -- 4 Small is Beautiful: Green Economics -- Against Growth -- Economics as Alienation -- Bad Trade -- Green Alternatives to Globalisation -- A Green New Deal -- Beyond Green Anti-capitalism -- 5 Planet Earth Money Martyred: Social Credit, Positive Money and Monetary Reform -- IMF Apocalypse -- Financing Enclosure and Ecocide -- on the Attac -- Monetary Reform -- Lets and Local Currencies -- Positive Money -- 6 Imperialism Unlimited: Marxisms -- Marxist Economics: The Utter Basics -- Marxist Theories of Imperialism -- Marxist Approaches to Globalisation -- Castro on Globalisation -- David Harvey's Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism -- Marx in Caracas -- Marx Beyond Marx -- 7 The Tribe of Moles: Autonomism, Anarchism and Empire -- Anarchist Marxism -- Marxist Anarchism -- Foucault on Rioting -- Empire as a Pure Model of Capital -- Strategy From the time it was uttered by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, There is no alternative has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order. The illusion of inevitability has long been a bulwark of late capitalism, leaving us unable to imagine anything beyond its crises and inequalities. But as Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism , there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted worldand not just one alternative, but many. Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream economics, and capitalism from Adam Smith onwards, Economics After Capitalism provides a step-by-step guide to the writers, movements, and schools of thought critical of neoliberal globalization. These thinkers range from Keynesian-inspired reformists such as George Soros and Joseph Stiglitz and critics of inequality like Thomas Piketty and Amartya Sen to more radical voices such as Naomi Klein, Marxists such as David Harvey, anarchists, and autonomists including Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Wall explains Marxs economic system in a twenty-first century context and outlines how we can build a democratic economy that, by drawing on the ideas of Elinor Ostrom, Hugo Chavez and others, can renew socialism. In providing a clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism, Wall successfully demonstrates that an alternative to rampant climate change, elite rule and financial chaos is not just necessary, but possible. 'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in 'Economics after capitalism', there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world - and not just one alternative, but many. Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream economics and capitalism from Adam Smith onwards, 'Economics after capitalism' provides a step-by-step guide to various writers, movements and schools of thought, critical of neoliberal globalisation. These range from Keynesian-inspired reformists such as Geroge Soros and Joseph Stiglitz, critics of inequality like Thomas Piketty and Amaitya Sen, more radical voices including Naomi Klein, Marxists such as David Harvey, anarchists, and autonomists including Toni Negri and Michael Hardt. Wall explains Marx's economic system in a twenty-first century context and outlines how we can build a commons-based democratic economy that, by drawing on the ideas of Elinor Ostrom, Hugo Chavez and others, can renew socialism.In providing a clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism, Derek Wall successfully demonstrates that an open source eco-socialist alternative to rampant climate change, elite rule and financial chaos is not just necessary, but possible 'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world and not just one alternative, but many. Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream economics and capitalism from Adam Smith onwards, Economics After Capitalism provides a step-by-step guide to various writers, movements and schools of thought, critical of neoliberal globalisation. These range from Keynesian-inspired reformists such as Geroge Soros and Joseph Stiglitz, critics of inequality like Thomas Piketty and Amaitya Sen, to more radical voices including Naomi Klein, Marxists such as David Harvey, anarchists, and autonomists including Toni Negri and Michael Hardt. By providing a clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism, Derek Wall successfully demonstrates that an open source eco-socialist alternative to rampant climate change, elite rule and financial chaos is not just necessary, but possible

'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. However, there is an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world - and not just one alternative, but many.

Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream economics and capitalism from Adam Smith onwards, Economics After Capitalism provides a step-by-step guide to various writers, movements and schools of thought, critical of neoliberal globalisation. These range from Keynesian-inspired reformists such as Geroge Soros and Joseph Stiglitz, critics of inequality like Thomas Piketty and Amaitya Sen, to more radical voices including Naomi Klein, Marxists such as David Harvey, anarchists, and autonomists including Toni Negri and Michael Hardt.

By providing a clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism, Derek Wall successfully demonstrates that an open source eco-socialist alternative to rampant climate change, elite rule and financial chaos is not just necessary, but possible.

Economics After Capitalism shows that there are many alternatives to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world. Challenging the arguments for mainstream economics, Derek Wall provides a step-by-step guide to thinkers ranging from Keynesian-inspired reformists such as George Soros and Joseph Stiglitz, to critics of inequality such as Thomas Piketty and Amartya Sen, to more radical voices including Naomi Klein, David Harvey, anarchists, and autonomists such as Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, along with greens and ecosocialists. Wall draws on the ideas of Elinor Ostrom, Hugo Chavez and others, showing how we can build a democratic economy and a future free of rampant climate change, financial chaos and the ravages of elite rule. Book jacket 8 Ecosocialist Alternatives: Marx's Ecology -- The Anti-capitalism of the Poor -- The End of the World? -- Socialism and Ecology -- Malthusianism as Murder -- Ecotopia -- Ecosocialism in the Twenty-first Century -- 9 Women of the World Unite: Feminist Economics -- Feminist Revolutions -- Deirdre McCloskey and the Methodological Challenge to Economics -- Amartya Sen's Reformist Feminism -- The Unhappy Marriage of Frederich Engels and Revolutionary Feminism -- Ecofeminism -- Autonomist Feminism and Zerowork -- The Ostrom Alternative -- 10 Life After Capitalism: Alternatives, Structures, Strategies -- Marx, Ostrom and the Commons -- Defend, Extend and Deepen the Commons -- Alternatives -- The Mirror Stage -- Bibliography -- Index Cover 1 Contents 6 Foreword to the New Edition - David Bollier 11 Foreword to the First Edition - Nandor Tanczos 16 Acknowledgements 19 1. Warm Conspiracies and Cold Concepts 20 2. Vaccinating Against Anti-Capitalism: Stiglitz, Soros and Friends 37 3. White Collar Global Crime Syndicate: Korten, Klein and Other Anti-Corporatists 55 4. Small is Beautiful: Green Economics 69 5. Planet Earth Money Martyred: Social Credit, Positive Money and Monetary Reform 81 6. Imperialism Unlimited: Marxisms 95 7. The Tribe of Moles: Autonomism, Anarchism and Empire 112 8. Ecosocialist Alternatives: Marx's Ecology 135 9. Women of the World Unite: Feminist Economics 148 10. Life after Capitalism: Alternatives, Structures, Strategies 160 Challenging the mainstream consensus on economics, Wall evokes popular radical economists to provide an eco-socialist alternative to capitalism.