The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy

Economics is about choices, but who gets to make them? Patel shows how free market fundamentalism has distorted how consumers value their world.

Author: Rajeev Charles Patel
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/05/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.37w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780312429249
ISBN10: 031242924X
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Nationalism & Patriotism
- Business & Economics | Development | Business Development

About the Author

Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved, is an activist and academic who has been hailed as a visionary for his prescience about the food crisis. Raj has worked for the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and has protested against them on four continents. He is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First.

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