Nonviolent Political Economy: Theory and Applications

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Johan Galtung
Preface
Introduction: nonviolent political economy: a research and teaching
agenda
	Introduction
	The violence of conventional economic thinking
	The idea of nonviolent economy
	Extended approaches to the conflict
	The bioeconomics, its derivatives, and some unrealizable agendas
	Moral and ethical economy of civil disobedience
	The political economy of love (and other non-egoistic motivations)
	Extended perspectives of choice
	Bibliography
PART I: A critique of conventional and violent economy
	1. Money, credit and interest in light of unconventional perspective
		Introduction
		Reconsidering the myth of barter, money and credit
		The origin of money interest in light of structural and functional decay
		Debt creation and control: miscellaneous problems
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		Bibliography
	2. The economic nature of man disputed: anthropology and the ‘homo oeconomicus’
		John Locke’s provocation
		Towards a rational world: evolutionism
		Ethnographic economy: organised wilderness and the culture of social bonding
		French Neo-Marxism: back to production, re-production and
exploitation
		From the global margins towards the capitalist ‘heart of
darkness’
		Reaching out
		Notes
		References
PART II: Self-organized collective action and preservation of commons
	3. Emergent collective action: complexifying the world
		Introduction
		(Classical) collective action theory: a state-of-the-art
		The concept of emergence, revisited
		What is emergent collective action?
		An argument for some cases about ECA
		Humanity’s most astounding challenge ever: conceiving and making future possible
		A non-conclusive conclusion
		Note
		Acknowledgements
		References
	4. Self-organized collective action in the Floating Island Project
		Introduction
		The Floating Island Project
		Chronology of the Floating Island Project
		Evaluations: environmental and economic
		The SeaZone Acts
		Decentralizing governance to manage problems of the commons
		Conclusion: complex voluntary governance
		Notes
		Acknowledgements
		References
	5. Buds in the capitalist desert: emerging socio-economic forms that are changing the world
		Introduction: capitalist world-system crisis or systemic metamorphosis?
		From social resistance and the construction of alternatives: the emergence of Social and Solidarity Economies
		ECOSOL as an Emerging Social Movement: metamorphosis of the alternative solidarity economies
		Final reflections: other economies are possible, or changing the world from the small
		Bibliography
PART III: Ecological economy, political ecology and degrowth
	6. Sustainable consumption and ecological sufficiency: discourses and power relations
		Introduction
		Discourses on sustainable consumption
		The new discourse of ecological sufficiency
		Discourses compatible with ecological sufficiency
		Theoretical approaches
		Public policies
		Final remarks
		References
	7. Holistic peace: a new paradigm for business
		Introduction
		Business and peace
		The transrational business paradigm
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
PART IV: Gandhian and Buddhist political economy
	8. Gandhi, economics, and the new story
		Some background
		Conclusion and applications
		Notes
		References
	9. Buddhist principles for a non-violent economy
		Non-violence, the creed of Mahatma Gandhi
		Small Is Beautiful
		A Middle Way for the Market Place
		Buddhist economic strategy
		Conclusions: from non-violent business practices to a nonviolent political economy
		References
PART V: Disarmament, post-military systems of defense and transition towards a nonviolent social order
	10. Civilian-based defense systems: leveraging economic power to fulfill security treaty obligations
		Economic well-being vs. security: a priority dilemma
		How helpful is CBD in countering potential security threats?
		If/when States transition to CBD, what are the likely impacts?
		How can CBD be better used?
		What are the main challenges in implementing CBD?
		Are there any inspirational case studies?
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	11. Systemic violence in Syria and the usefulness of political economy
		Introduction: the ingredients of violence
		Historical, cultural, and political violence
		Masculinity, Koran, and sexuality
		Historic/legal incitements to extreme violence
		Epilogue
		Notes
		Bibliography
	12. How to break the spell? Sources of violence and conflict in an oil rent based economy: a case study of Iraq and the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan
		Introduction
		State of research
		Theoretical framework
		Environmental determinism
		Geographical conditionalities
		Historical path dependency
		Bad governance
		The case study: Iraq and the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index