Short description
Toxic debt, job losses, collapsing commodity prices, expanding poverty. How can we rein in beasts unleashed by the free market?
Long description
The updated second edition of the acclaimed anthology of radical writing about the economic crisis, which sees this as an historic opportunity to build a new model with humans rather than profit at its heart. The book has been expanded to include new contributions by Joseph Stiglitz, Walden Bello and Jayati Ghosh.
Review
Aiming to be motivating and inspirational, People First Economics is a timely book that demonstrates clearly and comprehensively just why economics must be about more than business, finance and system that suits the minority of the world's people at the ever-increasing expense of the majority. The publishers, New Internationalist, challenge us to read it and ask yourself this: will you settle for the patching up of a failing economic model or, like this passionate group of writers, will you be part of the radical rethink that's only just beginning ad stand up and fight for what really matters in life? Environment Times Online