Another Economy is Possible, Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis by Castells, Manuel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright About the Authors Acknowledgments Introduction: Manuel Castells Chapter 1 Economy Is Culture: Sarah Banet-Weiser and Manuel Castells

What is value? The culture of financial capitalists and financial institutions The passion to create and the value of creativity Feminist economics Conclusion: Economic practices beyond economics References

Chapter 2 Economics Without Growth: Giorgos Kallis

Introduction Part 1: Six core principles Part 2: An alternative account of the crisis Part 3: The alternative economy as an embodiment of the new economics Part 4: New economic policies Conclusion Acknowledgments References

Introduction Part 1: Conceptual framework Part 2.1: An overview of typologies and classifications Part 2.2: How it works (some examples) Part 2.3: Statistical data overview Part 3: Relationship between the community currency systems and the country’s level of social and economic development, different aspects of the financial sector and money Main empirical findings Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2: Methodology Appendix 3: Statistical analysis References

Introduction The bitcoin blockchain The blockchain after bitcoin Radical blockchain dreams The incorporative blockchain dream? A slow blockchain? Conclusion References

Methodology The three trends underlying the dysfunctional financial services landscape Findings Conclusion References

Chapter 6 Commoning Against the Crisis: Angelos Varvarousis and Giorgos Kallis

Introduction Part 1: Conceptual framework: commons, liminality, and rhizomes Part 2: Greece’s great depression Part 3: The liminal commons of the indignant squares Part 4: The rhizomatic spread of commoning Part 5: Limits and challenges Conclusion Acknowledgments References

Introduction The crisis of financial capitalism and the rise of a new economic culture Methodology Descriptive analysis An empirical typology of alternative economic practices Who practices what: socio-demographic, attitudinal and cultural determinants in the activation of alternative practices Two alternative economic cultures: survival and the meaning of life Conclusion: Are alternative practices sustainable? Methodological appendix References

Introduction Resilience as a future-oriented concept The Slow City movement Researching Slow Cities in Australia Mundane future-making Implications for making resilient futures Acknowledgments References

Conclusion: Manuel Castells

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