Offering a searching ethical analysis of the issues, Professor Gorringe argues that the hubris of the present global market is destroying communities and seriously damaging the planet: we are living in a modern version of the Midas myth - people can't eat money. Justice in its broadest sense - fair shares for all - is held up as the prime virtue of human communities. Practical suggestions are offered for an ethical transformation. This would replace the spiralling profit-driven system with a steady-state economy that meets not only human needs, material and otherwise, but also the needs of other species and the environment.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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I am not sure what the reviewer below me is on about ...,
By Mark (Cape Town South Africa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fair Shares (Paperback)
... but as a person who works within an aggressive corporate environment that is motivated only by the greed for more profit at any expense, I found the book excellent at highlighting the lack of morality in modern business and economics. If the reviewer below is reproducing all those quotes to state that the book is pie in the sky all I can say is "so it should be". Goes to show how sick the current system is.
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Animal farm (Orwell) revisited,
This review is from: Fair Shares (Paperback)
The book deals with fair shares, ethics and the global economy. It makes specific recommendations on all of these points.The problem "Trade is largely controlled by a small number of huge corporations" "Disintegration of communities and its replacement by the market " "Tourism has now become a truly serious problem, generating mass prostitution in Thailand, the Philippines and Costa Rica". "Open up countries to competitiveness, is a current euphemism for plunder" "What we call democracies are in fact plutocracies, rule by the rich". "The sacramental quality of life has been dissolved by the priority of profit." " Free trade is intrinsically harmful" "Real love of the earth guided mankind for most of its history and has been abandoned in the last fifty years" " In Haiti as a direct result of this "free market" half the children die before age 5". "Life expectancy is fifty-three" Anyway that is better than Sierra Leone where it is 26. May be trade is even freer there. "Western society is characterised by "exterminism", a logic of annihilation as a compulsion to growth and the market society". The solution " No emphasis on free trade. For example the inward Isles or Grenada have been reduced to dependence on a single crop by the accidents of colonial history". I thought the point would be that it was due to free trade. " Introduction of progressive income tax to be collected automatically from the rich nations and to be distributed to poor nations according to their needs" "Socialism that is democratic control of the self regulating market" I wonder why control is necessary if it is self-regulating. May be this is meant by democratic control " The problems we face are so big that we may only be able to overcome them and we need governments capable of rallying far more effectively than could be possible in a democratic setting". "If the issue for mankind is survival, such governments may be unavoidable." The animal farm! "Do away with intellectual property right". "We should encourage the sharing of knowledge". I checked if this applied to this book. Oh no. "It shall not be lent, hired out or otherwise circulated." Sorry. "Work in the arms trade is illegitimate". Conversion to civil tasks. "I can list five thousand new products, beginning with systems for renewable energy to monitoring and control devices... that could combat our biggest killer cardiovascular disease" These ideas are not from the author but from a person he knows, Professor Michael Cooley, "a leading aircraft design engineer" "There are grounds for hope in Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) people trade skills without recourse to money" With these solutions " justice can roll down in torrents, and mercy as a mountain stream". The above quotes are all in the book. Most of the book consists of quotes of others, so several are quotes of quotes. The author is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Exeter in the UK.
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