May 1-3
Alternative economies
Gowan, Teresa, Rachel Slocum and Jack Atmore. Forthcoming.
Practicing Plenitude in the Aude, France. In Practicing Plenitude.
Ed. Juliet Schor. New Haven, Yale University Press.
This is a draft chapter for a collection edited by Juliet Schor. In Plenitude, Schor suggests that the 'Business-As-Usual' (BAU) economy (growth at all costs) is undermining society and the environment. She proposes a different way of thinking and doing economic life, plenitude. Go to the above website and learn about her critique of BAU and her proposal. In her new collection, Schor has gathered examples in which people are putting plenitude into practice. Many of those case studies are directly or indirectly concerned with food. The draft chapter you'll read takes you to a part of southern France called the Aude where people are involved in creating an 'alternative economy' based on cooperation and the exchange of goods outside the market. In French society there is a movement against an economy oriented around growth, an idea that one actually hears discussed in the public arena, unlike in the US (see poster left).
Discuss Schor's ideas and the example we provide. What makes these plenitudinous economies possible in the Aude? What would need to happen here to enable them?
Practicing Plenitude in the Aude, France. In Practicing Plenitude.
Ed. Juliet Schor. New Haven, Yale University Press.
This is a draft chapter for a collection edited by Juliet Schor. In Plenitude, Schor suggests that the 'Business-As-Usual' (BAU) economy (growth at all costs) is undermining society and the environment. She proposes a different way of thinking and doing economic life, plenitude. Go to the above website and learn about her critique of BAU and her proposal. In her new collection, Schor has gathered examples in which people are putting plenitude into practice. Many of those case studies are directly or indirectly concerned with food. The draft chapter you'll read takes you to a part of southern France called the Aude where people are involved in creating an 'alternative economy' based on cooperation and the exchange of goods outside the market. In French society there is a movement against an economy oriented around growth, an idea that one actually hears discussed in the public arena, unlike in the US (see poster left).
Discuss Schor's ideas and the example we provide. What makes these plenitudinous economies possible in the Aude? What would need to happen here to enable them?
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