This paper examines the possibility of understanding and measuring well-being as a result of “progress” on the basis of today’s dominant epistemological framework. Market criteria distort social values by allowing purchasing power to define priorities, likening luxury goods to basic needs;...

Building social alternatives is necessary to resist the destructive impacts of the capitalist organization on well-being, social organization, and the planet. This paper offers an analysis of the ways in which peoples are mobilizing to build organizations and to define social movements to move...

The search for an effective strategy of labor solidarity in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement involves more than a denunciation of violations of the rights of workers. It requires support for an alternative strategy of economic progress based on defending and strengthening...

Las investigaciones recientes acerca del desarrollo local y las economías campesinas se realizan con una carencia de análisis teórico. La teoría económica dejó de estudiar las transformaciones que padeció un segmento importante de la población rural, los campesinos, a partir de la puesta...