Alternative economics Archives

Promissory notes of a better world | Occupy, radical democracy and the question of revolutionary politics

R.C. Smith

September 7, 2014

Key Series: Occupy, Emancipatory Politics & Radical Democracy Occupy, radical democracy and revolutionary politics' follows up on the recent Heathwood Public Forum on Occupy and Radical Democracy. It dra... Read More...

From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism | Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis

Michel Bauwens

June 30, 2014

The following paper by Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis contemplates a potential transitional approach to a post-capitalist economy, which combines both Commons-oriented open peer production models with comm... Read More...

The Alienable, the Inalienable, and an Actually Democratic Society

Elliot Sperber

June 30, 2014

Key Series: Political Economy, Neoliberalism & Alternative Economics By Elliot Sperber The title of the Basic Income Earth Network’s 15th international conference on basic income law – Re-Democratizin... Read More...

On the Basic Income Law, Economic Democracy, Participatory Economics, and the Importance of the Commons in the 21st Century: Further thoughts on an alternative philosophy of social change

R.C. Smith

December 18, 2013

Key Series: Political Economy, Neoliberalism & Alternative Economics By R.C. Smith Introduction Over the past few weeks I’ve had the privilege of engaging with a number of people both in formal discu... Read More...

Toward a Salutary Political-Economy – Freedom from Jobs

Elliot Sperber

November 13, 2013

Key Series: Political Economy, Neoliberalism & Alternative Economics By Elliot Sperber While gains have certainly been made toward a more inclusive, egalitarian society over the half-century since Martin ... Read More...

A Comparison of Economic Democracy and Participatory Economics

Heathwood

October 24, 2013

By Adam Weiss Many advocates of economic justice have long believed that capitalism needs to be transcended. However, positive programs for a just economy have been lacking compared to the hailstorm of anti-... Read More...

Interview with Robin Hahnel on Participatory Economics (including a short review by R.C.Smith)

Heathwood

October 22, 2013

(If the player isn't displaying properly, please refresh the page) In this interview Robin Hahnel discusses his book Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy, the failings of free... Read More...

Alain Badiou explains money, desire and the fictions of capitalism

Heathwood

August 3, 2013

A nice four minute short of Alain Badiou explaining in typically concise and penetrative fashion what money is and how it operates in contemporary capitalism. Badiou also breaks down the function of desire in c... Read More...

The Paradoxical Perpetuation of Neoliberalism: How Ideologies are Formed and Dissolved

Matthew Morgan

June 19, 2013

Key Series: Political Economy, Neoliberalism & Alternative Economics By Matthew Morgan The era of neoliberalism, which was inaugurated with the Volcker shock of 1979, should have concluded with the financ... Read More...

Robin Hahnel: Case Against Markets (University of Helsinki)

Heathwood

June 14, 2013

Professor emeritus Robin Hahnel speaking at University of Helsinki (11th September, 2012) about some of the structural problems of market systems, the systemic failings of capitalism and potential participatory... Read More...

Global Hegemony: the facts, the images – Noam Chomsky

Heathwood

May 18, 2013

Speaking at the University of Oregon, Noam Chomsky talks about the current state of the economy, the assault on social welfare programs and the prospects for resistance and hope in the years ahead. ... Read More...

The Neoliberal Theory of Society: The Ideological Foundations of Neo-liberalism

Heathwood

May 16, 2013

Key Series: Political Economy, Neoliberalism & Alternative Economics By Simon Clarke Neoliberalism presents itself as a doctrine based on the inexorable truths of modern economics. However, despite it... Read More...

How Ideology is Policing the Crisis of European Capitalism (On the rise of far-right, dominant ideologies in Europe)

Christian Fuchs

May 14, 2013

Key Series: Race, Class, Gender, Ability: Cultural Studies and Critical Intersections By Christian Fuchs 1. Dangerous Immigrants? Politics in the UK enters the stage. In Britain, fears of illegal immi... Read More...

Critical Review of the History of Economic Thought and the Present Need for an Alternative

R.C. Smith

May 4, 2013

An Essay by R.C. Smith Like other dimensions of social life, economics has been subject to or entwined in the historical structures and processes of ideology. This history can often be seen today in the f... Read More...

Report: The failure of austerity and why we need a new, alternative macroeconomic strategy

Heathwood

May 2, 2013

The following is a summary by senior economist James Meadway, which discusses a recent report by the New Economics Foundation (see below). The report outlines why austerity economics is essentially baseless and... Read More...

Alternatives to Capitalism

Richard Wolff

April 26, 2013

By Richard D. Wolff The worsening social pains of government austerity programs now intensify the vast social suffering caused by the crisis since 2007. Beyond this especially severe business cycle, longer-t... Read More...

Participatory Economics – A Theoretical Alternative to Capitalism by Geert Dhondt

Guest

March 22, 2013

a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master’s man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a world, in which... Read More...