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Book SynopsisA devastating critique of the global market paradigm
Trade Review'A tour de force, one of the most devastating critiques of the global market paradigm that has been written to date. McMurtry's intellect is razor sharp and his arguments are developed and exercised with a remarkable depth and precision. This book marks McMurtry as one of the most important moral philosophers of his generation' -- Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Table of ContentsPreface
PART I: THE NEW WORLD ORDER
1. Inevitability and terror: The unseen pattern
2. Return of the genocidal war
3. Decoding the global market ethic
PART II: UNLOCKING THE INVISIBLE PRISON
4. Property, punishment and prisons: the origins of corporate absolutism
5. Understanding the new totalitarianism of the global market
6. The master regulators of the world system: science, technology and money capital
PART III: THE PARADIGM TURN: THE LIFE ECONOMY FROM WHERE WE STAND
7. Regulating the money system for life capital
8. Preventing ecocide: making commodity cycles accountable to life standards
9. Global regulation by life standards: a rules-based international life economy for planetary survival
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