Perhaps the first book to draw together all the areas of academic study of sustainable development and environmental business management. It covers environmental business ethics, environmental operational and strategic management, green politics, green economics and green technologies. Advantages over competitors are its emphasis on holism and wealth of up-to-date examples. While avoiding the trap of being over prescriptive, the text suggests practical steps that students should assimilate and later apply in their organizations.

Environmental Business Management: Sustainable Development in the New Millennium

Business & Money

Hutchinson, Frances

Hutchinson, Andrew

Economics

McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd

This work approaches the phenomenon of guild socialism from a new perspective, focusing on the Douglas Social Credit movement. It explores the key ideas, gives an overview of the main theories and traces their subsequent history. Thoroughly researched, it provides original material relevant to the field of political economy. This early approach to non-equilibrium economics reveals the extent of the incompatibility between capitalist growth economics and social and environmental sustainability.

The Political Economy of Social Credit and Guild Socialism (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Burkitt, Brian

Routledge

On the whole, classical and radical economists have marginalised the role of money, most particularly the role of credit, in driving the machinery of accumulation and exclusion. Although critiques of capitalism from Marxist, feminist, ecological and many other perspectives abound, The Politics of Money is unique in gathering the strengths of these differing critiques into a coherent whole. The authors have drawn upon their varied expertise in economics and the social sciences to produce the foundations of a new political economy that will enable communities to reconstruct their socio-economic fabric through social and political control of money systems. The book opens with a review of the role of money in current society, an overview of the history of money creation and a critique of the main theoretical developments in economic thought. Alternative perspectives on money are then presented through a review of a number of radical perspectives but focusing mainly on the work of Marx, Veblen and the social credit perspective of Douglas and the guild socialists. In the final part of the book contemporary monetary theories and experiments are analysed within the theoretical and historical perspectives provided in the earlier chapters. The main argument of the book is that it is necessary to understand the crucial role of finance in driving the 'free market' economy if a democratic and sustainable economy is to be achieved.

THE POLITICS OF MONEY

Pluto Press

On the whole, classical and radical economists have marginalised the role of money, most particularly the role of credit, in driving the machinery of accumulation and exclusion. Although critiques of capitalism from Marxist, feminist, ecological and many other perspectives abound, The Politics of Money is unique in gathering the strengths of these differing critiques into a coherent whole. The authors have drawn upon their varied expertise in economics and the social sciences to produce the foundations of a new political economy that will enable communities to reconstruct their socio-economic fabric through social and political control of money systems. The book opens with a review of the role of money in current society, an overview of the history of money creation and a critique of the main theoretical developments in economic thought. Alternative perspectives on money are then presented through a review of a number of radical perspectives but focusing mainly on the work of Marx, Veblen and the social credit perspective of Douglas and the guild socialists. In the final part of the book contemporary monetary theories and experiments are analysed within the theoretical and historical perspectives provided in the earlier chapters. The main argument of the book is that it is necessary to understand the crucial role of finance in driving the 'free market' economy if a democratic and sustainable economy is to be achieved.

The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability and Economic Democracy

Mellor, Mary

Olsen, Wendy

Focusing on the theories of 20th-century economist Major C. H. Douglas and the social credit movement, this study explores the guild socialist origins of Douglas’s work, documents the subsequent history of the movement, and condenses the economic and social theories found in his original texts into a concise exposition. Breaking new ground in demonstrating the continued relevance of the social credit movement, this thoroughly researched reference reveals the extent of the incompatibility between capitalist growth economics and a socially just, environmentally sustainable political economy.

The Political Economy of Social Credit and Guild Socialism

Jon Carpenter Publishing

This radical re-evaluation of the economics of guild socialism and social credit exposes the fundamental flaws in global free market capitalism. The author shows why markets fail to achieve equilibrium; why the importance of the land is always under-estimated; why labor has been degraded into wage-slavery; and how economists fail to recognize that money, far from being a simple facilitator of exchange, has become the over-riding driving force in the economy.

What Everybody Really Wants to Know About Money

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Arguing that a thorough understanding of the institutions of finance is the necessary prerequisite for humanity to regain freedom and establish genuine democracies, this reference is a clarification of the history of the Social Credit movement. From the time England’s King William III borrowed money from a group of private individuals for the purpose of war in 1694, finance has been debt-based. As industrialization evolved, people were transformed into propertyless, debt-owning, money-earning slaves. Why this should be so, how it is done, and why the sound body of economic theory known as social credit” has been studiously ignored by orthodox economic theorizing is thoroughly documented in this work.

Understanding the Financial System: Social Credit Rediscovered

Biography & History

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