Economy For And Against Democracy (the Human Economy) [Hardcover]

Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The comparative essays and case studies of this volume examine the contradictory relationship between the economy and democracy and highlight the struggles and visions needed to make things more equitable. They explore how our collective aspirations for greater democracy might be informed by serious empirical research on the human economy today. If we want a better world, we must act on existing social realities.

Keith Hartis International Director of the Human Economy Programme at the University of Pretoria. His recent books includeThe Human Economy: A Citizen's Guide,Economic Anthropology,People, Money and Power in the Economic CrisisandMoney in a Human Economy.

Introduction
Keith Hart

PART I: ECONOMY VERSUS DEMOCRACY

Chapter 1.Habits of austerity: financialization and new ways of dealing with money
J?rgen Schraten

Chapter 2.What financial crisis? The global politics of finance: distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives
Horacio Ortiz

Chapter 3.Party funding for and against democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa
Booker Magure

PART II: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

Chapter 4.Women as mediators in post-war Mozambique: pushing lobolo from price to propriety
Albert Farr?

Chapter 5.Negotiating state and lsÄ