In comes the citizen approach
Christopher Vincenzi discovers a new way of living
Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era by Harry Shutt. Zed Books. ISBN 978-184813-417-1. £12.99. How are we to get through the current global financial and economic crisis? Harry Shutt, who saw the storm clouds approaching several years ago, offers some radical solutions to the problems with which world leaders are still struggling. Harry has worked as an economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, and as a consultant to the governments of a number of developing countries. He believes that world governments have wilfully ignored the long-term and systemic causes and, are, consequently, unable to see a way out of the morass. Since 1974, when the post-war boom came to an end, western countries have sought to promote economic growth by a process of deregulation, privatisation and the liberalisation of markets. Not only has this produced little actual growth, but great damage has been done to the credibility of our system of government.
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