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Degrowth
Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability. This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global. The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference. More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.org View the author spotlight featuring events and press related to degrowth at http://t.co/k9qbQpyuYp.
The State of Capitalism
Thinking beyond pandemic capitalism The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of 2007-9. The pandemic has catapulted the state to the centre of economic activity. However, a historic impasse is steadily becoming apparent at the core of the world economy Productive accumulation is flaccid, as both profitability and labour productivity are weak. Financialisation has entered a new phase, as “shadow banking” grew relative to other banks but is entirely dependent on the state. The power of the state derives from command over fiat money and can certainly deliver enormous boost...
Computational Science – ICCS 2023
The five-volume set LNCS 14073-14077 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2023, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during July 3-5, 2023. The total of 188 full papers and 94 short papers presented in this book set were carefully reviewed and selected from 530 submissions. 54 full and 37 short papers were accepted to the main track; 134 full and 57 short papers were accepted to the workshops/thematic tracks. The theme for 2023, "Computation at the Cutting Edge of Science", highlights the role of Computational Science in assisting multidisciplinary research. This conference was a unique event focusing on recent developments in scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools; computational grids; advanced numerical methods; and novel application areas. These innovative novel models, algorithms, and tools drive new science through efficient application in physical systems, computational and systems biology, environmental systems, finance, and others.
Basic Income Experiments
This book brings together insights and reflections following a set of interviews conducted with the main stakeholders involved in past, current, and future basic income experiments. It provides an analysis of some of the major elements and factors influencing experiments, as well of some of their most important outputs understood as results of their own experimental design, their sociological and political basis, and the epistemological status of their results. By pursuing a bottom-up strategy, where the interviews conducted take a pivotal role in the collection and analysis phase of the book, this book gathers key questions relating to policy experiments. Some questions reflected upon include the general idea of why one should engage and implement a basic income experiment, and the paradox consisting in the fact that most basic income experiments fall short of being closely considered “pure” basic income schemes. In facing the question and the paradox head-on, the book assesses questions of experimental design, the political and social context surrounding the policy, and the main results and what can they tell us about basic income.
Epistemology and Transformation of Knowledge in Global Age
This book consists of seven chapters containing multiple questions of the global socially epistemological situation in science and higher education. Despite the progress of techno-sciences, we are facing blind flaws in leading systems of knowledge and perception. The global era, in a paradox way, connects the new knowledge of economics, postpolitics, postdemocracy, and biopolitical regulation of live and unpresentable forms of the global geo-located violence. Techno-optimism and techno-dictatorship in the twenty-first century coincide with the ideology of market, biopolitics of mandatory satisfaction, religious revivalism, and collapse of higher education. In order for sciences to recover, it is necessary to make a globally epistemological and moral turn toward the truth. The book shows that, when joint desires of the new economics of knowledge and technology erase epistemology (in a way to assign definitions of knowledge and rules and practices of the public usage of the mind), then the time for epistemology is on its way.
Decrecimiento
El decrecimiento se resiste a una definición simple. Como la libertad o la justicia, el decrecimiento expresa una aspiración que no puede ser encerrada en una frase. El decrecimiento es un marco en el que coinciden diferentes líneas de pensamiento, imaginarios o propuestas para actuar. Esta versatilidad es una de sus principales fortalezas. El decrecimiento es un rechazo al espejismo del crecimiento y un llamamiento a favor de una repolitización del debate público, hoy colonizado por el lenguaje economicista. Decrecimiento es la hipótesis de que podamos «vivir bien con menos y en común». Las contribuciones a este libro provienen de diversas escuelas de pensamiento, de diferentes dis...
The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity
Experts from around the world review the complex and rapidly changing politics and policies of austerity in this comprehensive collection of essays. The book details the many different means and expressions of austerity since the financial crisis of 2008, as well as backlashes and emerging political alternatives.
Desentrañando la Unión Europea
En las condiciones de internacionalización del mundo actual, para entender que pasa en el Estado Español es necesario observar que está pasando en la economía mundial. Además, España está desde hace casi dos décadas integrada en una unidad supranacional, la Unión Europea (UE), que tiene una gran incidencia en lo que sucede en el país. Sin embargo, en el estado español es escaso el conocimiento y el debate sobre la misma. Por ello, nos proponemos presentar aquí, siquiera muy brevemente, algunos de los aspectos que la actuación de esta institución supone, dado que consideramos que sólo así, podremos estudiar la situación y evolución de la economía del estado español.
Los días de la marmota
Los Días de la Marmota es un libro de relatos reales de las vivencias del primer confinamiento durante la pandemia. Nos encontramos varios meses encerrados viviendo una misma experiencia, de alguna manera todos bajo un mismo techo en un momento insólito del planeta. El libro nos abre a la posibilidad de mirar de una manera diferente y creativa el confinamiento que nos ha tocado vivir en estos tiempos extraños. Relatos profundos, historias reales y entrevistas nos inspiran a retomar las riendas de nuestra vida. Podemos estar abordando las desigualdades sociales, el problema de la vivienda, la amenaza a los derechos humanos y el desmoronamiento de la economía mundial, y al mismo tiempo estar mirando hacia nuestro interior para encontrarnos con nosotros mismos en el momento presente. En este sentido, Los Días de la Marmota establece un puente entre las distintas capas de existencia humana, que se entrelazan formando un tejido simultáneo, indistinguible. En este diálogo nos reconocemos y acogemos, y también transformamos el mundo que vemos a través de la Conciencia. Ideado y compilado por Toni Prats y Laia Sanmartí. Con fotografías de Xavi Calvo.
Guide du municipalisme
La 4e de couverture indique : "De plus en plus, nos villes sont devenues le lieu où sévissent la spéculation, les exclusions de toutes sortes et la ségrégation sociale. Pourtant, de l’Espagne aux États-Unis et à l’Afrique du Sud, en passant par le Chili, le Rojava syrien, la Serbie, la Pologne ou la France, des groupes renversent cette logique et inventent une nouvelle manière de vivre ensemble. Ce mouvement de démocratie radicale, qui s’ancre au niveau local mais se connecte au monde, place les citoyens au centre des décisions publiques et de la sauvegarde de l’intérêt général. Il réintroduit la démocratie directe en s’appuyant sur des valeurs sociales, féministes...
