Contents
Acknowledgments
Take Back the Economy: Why Now?
1. Reframing the Economy, Reframing Ourselves
2. Take Back Work: Surviving Well
3. Take Back Business: Distributing Surplus
4. Take Back the Market: Encountering Others
5. Take Back Property: Commoning
6. Take Back Finance: Investing in Futures
Any Time, Any Place . . .
Notes
Index
J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and the
late Julie Graham, feminist political economists and economic
geographers based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia,
and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
"Take Back the Economy is the single most farsighted and practical
work enlightening us on the path to a steady transition toward a
genuine postcapitalist world. It is based on the presupposition
that reorienting the economy means much more than the control of
production—it means reinventing ourselves, our communities, and our
world in profound ways. Out of this act of ‘reframing’ there
emerges a novel understanding of work, enterprise, market,
property, even finance. In this wonderful new work in the tradition
of Gibson-Graham, students, activists, movements, and communities
will find a toolkit for ethical and effective action any time, any
place."—Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
"Take Back the Economy is a valuable, engaged accessible and very
clear addition to the Community Economics Collective oeuvre, and I
hope it will be read widely and--more importantly--change the
world."—Antipode"Readable, practical, radical."—Sociology"A most
exquisitely conducted study into the not-for-profit or other side
of organisations. It impressively shows that ‘another world’ is not
only possible but already here."—Organization"Beneficial for the
use of individuals looking to alter their environmental or economic
impact, students interested in administration or economics, or
researchers and planners seeking alternatives for their
communities."—Journal of Appalachian Studies
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