The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
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“A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness.”–Naomi Klein, leader of The Shock Doctrine
Opening with Oscar Wilde’s observation that “nowadays people know the fee of everything and the value of nothing,” Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and questions how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system.
If part one questions how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to clarify the world’s worth. If we don’t want the market to fee every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have learned democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.
This fleeting, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the incorrect kind of economics. While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn’t regularly said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to reflect about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to make a sustainable economy and society.
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Clearly, The Value of BS (like this) is money — and lots of it. You know — the same kind of money that drives the evil, stupid market economy we need so desperately to transcend.
Do you reflect a corporation published this book? …Let me reflect… Or perhaps did a corporation arrange for the production of the paper and ink it’s printed on? I marvel if a corporation paid the artists who did the book design and layout. Do you reflect an evil corporation will deliver the book to you if you buy it here from the evil corporation (well, LLC), Amazon?
Got it? So shouldn’t the leader, in excellent faith to the message he is delivering unto the oppressed masses, take this book off the market and buy carbon credits with the dollars he made off it? Otherwise, he is furthering the aims of the inhuman, worker oppressing, greedy corporations.
Don’t hold your breath. Closer to the truth, it’s *Party Time* with Michael Moore and Al Gore and the ghost of Karl Marx. First class plane tickets and hotel rooms, and huge advances on his next book.
Extra large pizza, please… with extra cheese and a super helping of baloney. And don’t oppress the workers who made it or delivered it, ‘kay? Cool. Just make sure it’s cheap, tasty, and it gets here quick and HOT, or we want our money back!
After all, if we can place a man on the moon, shouldn’t we all be able to have free pizza?
The Value of Nothing: How to Sell BS to Idealistic Idiots Who Have No Appreciation for What They Already Have.
Credit card, please? No problem. Just give me this book!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Does the leader take into consideration how much the USA does for these struggling nations for free? Just yesterday an earthquake hit Haiti and the president offered aid to them any way we could.
I do hope that his thoughts are thought provoking to additional nations that are struggling.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I heard this leader present the key thoughts from this book for 40 minutes and cannot remember hearing so much muddled thinking jam-packed into such a fleeting period. If you are a glutton for unredeemed and loosely targeted attacks on the market economy, this may be the book for you. If not, at least skim the book before parting with excellent money for it. Among the loosely thought-out doctrines that Patel place forwards is “food sovereignty” under which heading he glided easily across the question of just who was to exercise this sovereignty (“the people”? the state? the producers, peasants or otherwise?). If you reflect food supply needs to be more politicized than it already is, call to mind the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (or, heaven help us, Soviet state farms).
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
It’s probably just me but while reading this book, confusion reigned. The leader permanently seemed to take forever to get to his points, and by the time he did, he included so many disjointed thoughts I lost track of what he was adage. Maybe being a slow reader (which I am) didn’t help.
After “trying” to read about 1/3 of the book, I flipped thru the remainder and returned
it to the library.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Too much disjointed material. The leader starts out relatively clearly and then gets into all sorts of disjointed thoughts. I kept hoping he would make his point.
I liked the effort but the net result is just confusion.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5