Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market

by Professor Stuart Sim

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Will our addiction to profit destroy the world we live in? The profit motive now exercises an effective tyranny over our lives: in the private as well as the public sector, nowhere seems immune from its reach. International tycoons, economists and politicians are obsessed with economic growth. Yet, as Stuart Sim shows, the pursuit of excessive profit brought the world to the brink of economic chaos in the recent credit crisis and threatens us with environmental disaster as well. Despite this, neoliberalism still sets the agenda for economic policy in the West. Sim suggests various 'act up' strategies so...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780748646715
  • Publish Date 30 April 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Edinburgh University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English