"Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, "alternative" foods and the people and networks supporting them become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics...

We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become...

Lebensweltökonomie stellt die erwerbsorientierte Wirtschaftsweise in ihren gesellschaftlichen, ökologischen, historischen, räumlichen und normativen Zusammenhang. Ihren Ausgangs- und Bezugspunkt bilden die Lebenswelt, die in ihr zum Tragen kommenden Handlungsprinzipien, das in ihr zum...