by Alf Hornborg (Author), Alf Hornborg (Author)
Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that conventional money is at the root of many of the problems that are threatening societies, not to mention planet Earth itself. Hornborg demonstrates how market prices obscure asymmetric exchanges of resources - human labor, land, energy, materials - under a veil of fictive reciprocity. Such unequal exchange, he claims, underpins the phenomenon of technological development, which is, fundamentally, a redistribution of time and space - human labor and land - in world society. Hornborg deftly illustrates how money and technology have shaped our thinking and our social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. He also offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 242
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 30 Jun 2019
ISBN 10: 1108429378
ISBN 13: 9781108429375
Book Overview: Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.