This work summarizes an already comprehensive field of criticisms of received economics and advanced new ones, particularly with respect to free trade and the industrialisation of economic systems. If global economic and ecological catastrophe is to be avoided, nations and communities must move towards greater self-reliance within the framework of a much less resource-wasteful existence. But to do this will require not merely a cosmetic change in the present socio-economic system, but a change of such magnitude that it dwarfs previous social transformations in human history. This great transformation must occur by conscious human activity and it must occur quickly if human civilizations, and indeed human life itself, is to continue.
- ISBN10 1859723411
- ISBN13 9781859723418
- Publish Date 15 October 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 March 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Avebury
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 266
- Language English