The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy

A product of twenty years of analysis and activism, this unique book poses a radical alternative to the current free-market industrial system. A book of history, theory and polemic, the authors show how, if we are to survive, economies must become needs-based, environmentally sustainable, co-operative and local. They explain how the current capitalist system is none of these things, is inherently unstable and is dependent on the exploitation of various marginalized groups, particularly women, and of the environment. They call instead for a new politics and economics based on subsistence and present examples of such a perspective in practice.

Author: Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Maria Mies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.40w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781856497763
ISBN10: 1856497763
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economics | Theory
- Business & Economics | Development | Sustainable Development

About the Author

Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen is an ethnologist and sociologist at the nonprofit Institute for Theory and Practice of Subsistence.

Maria Mies is a renowned Marxist-Feminist scholar. Her books include Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (Zed 1986, reissued 2014) and Ecofeminism (with Vandana Shiva, Zed 1993, reissued 2014).
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen is an ethnologist and sociologist at the nonprofit Institute for Theory and Practice of Subsistence.

Maria Mies is a renowned Marxist-Feminist scholar. Her books include Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (Zed 1986, reissued 2014) and Ecofeminism (with Vandana Shiva, Zed 1993, reissued 2014).