David Graeber - The Human Economy: a citizens guide (2011)
The Human Economy: a citizen’s guide (Polity Press)
A series of talks to complement the launch of The Human Economy: a citizen’s guide (Polity Press) at the LSE with a public lecture by Keith Hart on 27 January. David Lewis, David Graeber and Catherine Alexander have chapters in the book and will be talking briefly about these (with questions and discussion). The editors of the book, Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani will be discussing the broader collective project that began a decade ago at the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil and gave rise to this book:
The Human Economy, (eds Hart, Laville and Cattani), Polity Press
The global financial crisis has renewed concern about whether capitalist markets are the best way of organizing economic life. Would it not be better if we were to treat the economy as something made and remade by people themselves, rather than as an impersonal machine?
The object of a human economy is the reproduction of human beings and of whatever sustains life in general. Such an economy would express human variety in its local particulars as well as the interests of all humanity.