Alternative Economic Spaces

Author : Andrew Leyshon,Roger Lee,Colin C Williams
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0761971297

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Alternative Economic Spaces by Andrew Leyshon,Roger Lee,Colin C Williams Pdf

`A hopeful but nonetheless hard-hitting analysis of alternative economic spaces proliferating in the belly of the capitalist beast. In this book Leyshon, Lee and Williams convene fascinating studies of exchange, enterprise, credit and community. They invite us onto a new and promising discursive terrain where we can analyze, criticize and above all recognize actually existing economies of diversity in the wealthy countries of the West' - J K Gibson-Graham, Australian National University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst In the context of problems in the "new economy" - from dot.com start-ups, high-technology, and telecoms - Alternative Economic Spaces presents a critical evaluation of alternatives to the global economic mainstream. It focuses on the emergence of alternative economic geographies within developed economies and analyzes the emergence of alternative economic practices within industrialized countries. These include the creation of institutions like Local Exchange and Trading Systems, Credit Unions, and other social economy initiatives; and the development of alternative practices from informal work to the invention of consumption sites that act as alternatives to the monoply of the `big-box', multi-chain retail outlets. Alternative Economic Spaces is a reconsideration of what is meant by the `economic' in economic geography; its objective is to bring together some of the ways in which this is being undertaken. The volume shows how the `economic' is being rethought in economic geography by detailing new economic geographies as they are emerging in practice.

Author : Duncan Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317113447

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Interrogating Alterity by Duncan Fuller Pdf

Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world. Yet there is a danger that the debate about alternatives may become simply a way of fixing global capitalism in its present crisis-ridden form. Instead, the analysis of alternative economic spaces must continue to offer a critique of the very notion of capitalism as a universal, if variable, set of social relations. This important book brings together critical analyses of alterity from across the social sciences and humanities, refining and advancing what alternative economies and polities are, how they are formed, what difficulties and problems they face, and how they might be sustained. A central theme is the need to examine critically both the material contexts and the conceptual categories deployed in the making of alternative economies.

Author : Duncan Fuller,Andrew E. G. Jonas,Roger Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Community development
ISBN : 131558963X

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Interrogating Alterity by Duncan Fuller,Andrew E. G. Jonas,Roger Lee Pdf

Author : Hans-Martin Zademach,Sebastian Hillebrand
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839424988

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Alternative Economies and Spaces by Hans-Martin Zademach,Sebastian Hillebrand Pdf

The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises - deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Economic geography
ISBN : LCCN:2020717956

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Alternative Economies and Spaces by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ray Hudson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761948945

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Economic Geographies by Ray Hudson Pdf

Integrating ideas of structure, agency and practice this volume provides a detailed overview of recent key debates in economic geography and a discussion of the economy in terms of circuits, flows, and spaces that systematically relates the material to the cultural.

Author : C. James Hueng
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780880996761

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Alternative Economic Indicators by C. James Hueng Pdf

Policymakers and business practitioners are eager to gain access to reliable information on the state of the economy for timely decision making. More so now than ever. Traditional economic indicators have been criticized for delayed reporting, out-of-date methodology, and neglecting some aspects of the economy. Recent advances in economic theory, econometrics, and information technology have fueled research in building broader, more accurate, and higher-frequency economic indicators. This volume contains contributions from a group of prominent economists who address alternative economic indicators, including indicators in the financial market, indicators for business cycles, and indicators of economic uncertainty.

Author : Professor Andrew Cumbers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780320083

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Reclaiming Public Ownership by Professor Andrew Cumbers Pdf

*** Winner of the Myrdal Prize for Evolutionary Political Economy *** The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US, with a seemingly never-ending spate of corporate scandals and financial crises. As the environmental limits and socially destructive tendencies of the current profit-driven economic model become daily more self-evident, there is a growing demand for a fairer economic alternative, as evidenced by the mounting campaigns against global finance and the politics of austerity. Reclaiming Public Ownership tackles these issues head on, going beyond traditional leftist arguments about the relative merits of free markets and central planning to present a radical new conception of public ownership, framed around economic democracy and public participation in economic decision-making. Cumbers argues that a reconstituted public ownership is central to the creation of a more just and sustainable society. This book is a timely reconsideration of a long-standing but essential topic.

Author : Ana Margarida Fernandes Esteves,Tom Henfrey,Luciane Lucas dos Santos,Leonardo Leal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000987409

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Solidarity Economy by Ana Margarida Fernandes Esteves,Tom Henfrey,Luciane Lucas dos Santos,Leonardo Leal Pdf

Solidarity economy-based alternative spaces result from an interface among structural factors, institutional regimes and forms of collective action that mobilise narratives of change, collective identities and non-capitalist economic practices. This book analyses how solidarity economy initiatives develop alternative spatialities as counterpower to mainstream economy. Based on case studies in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, it elaborates on how different scales of solidarity economy-based alternative spaces result from an interface among structural factors, institutional regimes and forms of collective action that mobilise narratives of change, collective identities and non-capitalist economic practices.

Author : Bastian Lange,Martina Hülz,Benedikt Schmid,Christian Schulz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839457337

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Post-Growth Geographies by Bastian Lange,Martina Hülz,Benedikt Schmid,Christian Schulz Pdf

Post-Growth Geographies examines the spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio-ecological crises. The book brings together conceptual and empirical contributions from geography and its neighbouring disciplines and offers different perspectives on the possibilities, demands and critiques of post-growth transformation. Through case studies and interviews, the contributions combine voices from activism, civil society, planning and politics with current theoretical debates on socio-ecological transformation.

Author : Alex Braithwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1282611070

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Interrogating Alterity by Alex Braithwaite Pdf

This study introduces the concept of a conflict hot spot to the broader empirical literature on conflict processes. It identifies common causes and consequences of conflict hot spots across many regions globally, offering a theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging literature on the spatiality of conflict processes

Author : Duncan Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317113430

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Interrogating Alterity by Duncan Fuller Pdf

Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world. Yet there is a danger that the debate about alternatives may become simply a way of fixing global capitalism in its present crisis-ridden form. Instead, the analysis of alternative economic spaces must continue to offer a critique of the very notion of capitalism as a universal, if variable, set of social relations. This important book brings together critical analyses of alterity from across the social sciences and humanities, refining and advancing what alternative economies and polities are, how they are formed, what difficulties and problems they face, and how they might be sustained. A central theme is the need to examine critically both the material contexts and the conceptual categories deployed in the making of alternative economies.

Author : Khayaat Fakier,Ellen Ehmke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317701590

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Socio-Economic Insecurity in Emerging Economies by Khayaat Fakier,Ellen Ehmke Pdf

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and governments in all three countries are faced with similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by liberalization and structural adjustment. The ways in which governments, as well as individuals and worker organisations in IBSA have responded to these challenges are at the core of this book. The book explores the nature of insecurity in the Global South; the nature of the responses to this insecurity on public and small-scale collective as well as individual level; the potential of these responses to be more than neo-liberal mechanisms to govern and contain the poor and lessons to be learnt from these three countries. The first section covers livelihood strategies in urban and rural areas as individual and small-scale collective response to the condition of insecurity. Insecurity in the countries of the South is characterised by a high degree of uncertainty of the availability of income opportunities. The second section looks at state responses to insecurity and contributions on social protection measures taken by the respective IBSA governments. The third section discusses whether alternative development paths can be identified. The aim is to move beyond ‘denunciatory analysis.’ Livelihood strategies as well as public policies in some of the cases allow for the building of new spaces for agency and contestation of a neo-liberal mainstream which provide emerging and experimental examples. The book develops new thinking on Northern welfare states and their declining trade unions. It argues that these concepts, knowledge and policy innovations are now travelling in three directions, from North to South, from South to North, and between Southern countries. This book provides unique insights for researchers and postgraduate students in development studies, social policy and industrial sociology.

Author : Kate Raworth
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603587969

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Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth Pdf

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike. That’s why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Along the way, she points out how we can break our addiction to growth; redesign money, finance, and business to be in service to people; and create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design. Named after the now-iconic “doughnut” image that Raworth first drew to depict a sweet spot of human prosperity (an image that appealed to the Occupy Movement, the United Nations, eco-activists, and business leaders alike), Doughnut Economics offers a radically new compass for guiding global development, government policy, and corporate strategy, and sets new standards for what economic success looks like. Raworth handpicks the best emergent ideas—from ecological, behavioral, feminist, and institutional economics to complexity thinking and Earth-systems science—to address this question: How can we turn economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, into economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow? Simple, playful, and eloquent, Doughnut Economics offers game-changing analysis and inspiration for a new generation of economic thinkers.

Author : Andrew Leyshon,Nigel Thrift
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134770106

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Money/Space by Andrew Leyshon,Nigel Thrift Pdf

Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money. Money, it seems is the great God of our age. It is also an economy, a sociology, an anthropolgy and a geography. Linking money with the emergent patterns of global spatial order. Money/Space analyses the restructuring of financial markets in a range of spatial scales; global, national and local.