Derek Wall

Auteur van Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements

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Derek Wall is the author of numerous books including Economics After Capitalism (2015) and The Rise of the Green Left (2010). He teaches Political Economy at Goldsmith College, University of London and is joint international Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales.

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Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements (2005) 33 exemplaren

Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics (1993) 23 exemplaren

The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics (2010) 23 exemplaren

Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States (2017) 23 exemplaren

Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement (1983) 18 exemplaren

The Rise of the Green Left: Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement (2010) 17 exemplaren

Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future (2015) 14 exemplaren

The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology (2014) 14 exemplaren

Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis (2020) 8 exemplaren

Getting There (1990) 5 exemplaren

The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, contestation and craft (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics) (2014) 3 exemplaren

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Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and… door Derek Wall

An examination of various anti-capitalist strands: reformist, ant-corporatist, green, monetary reform, Marxist, autonomist, anarchist, ecosocialist, feminist. Interesting on ecosocialism as the author regards it as not being a green tinge on top of socialism. His own prescriptions are vague: emphasis on the concept of the commons, which seems a bit marginal to changing the whole system.

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jgoodwll | May 31, 2020 |

Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals: Cooperative… door Derek Wall

Pleasingly this book has a section pointing out that the tradegy of the commons was always a lie, told by imperialist Hardin. Rather than just argue like a pub bore (it was just that one time), Ostrom has the data to refute it.

Wall summarises her work as a set of rules:

1. Think about institutions
2. Pose social change as problem solving
3. Embrace diversity
4. Be specific
5. Listen to the people
6. Self-government is possible
7. Everything changes
8. Map power
9. Collective ownership can work
10. Human beings are part of nature too
11. All institutions are constructed, so can be constructed differently
12. No panaceas
13. Complexity does not mean chaos.

Wall does a good job of boiling a life's work into thematic chapters, rounded off with a bit of Marxist critique. The ideas are front-loaded, so I felt I got more out of the earlier chapters. On review I've highlighted at least one section in every chapter.… (meer)

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thenumeraltwo | Feb 15, 2020 |