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Giving and social transformation
journal contribution
posted on 2015-05-06, 08:49 authored by Dave Elder-VassGiving plays an important role in the contemporary economy, but this has been obscured by the perspectives of both mainstream economics and Marxist political economy. This paper draws on the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham to argue that this stunts our imagination about alternative futures, and on the work of Erik Olin Wright to suggest that gift-oriented economic practices could play a significant part in such futures. The most promising alternative economic futures involve not the replacement of a monolithic capitalism with some other monolithic alternative, but rather a changing mix of already-diverse economic practices. One part of the Marxist tradition that stands in the way of such thinking is its employment of the concept of modes of production, and the paper proposes complexes of appropriative practices as an alternative or supplementary concept.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Journal of Critical RealismVolume
13Issue
3Pages
261 - 285Citation
ELDER-VASS, D.J., 2014. Giving and social transformation. Journal of Critical Realism, 13 (3), pp.261-285.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2014Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Critical Realism on 21 Apr 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000030ISSN
1476-7430eISSN
1572-5138Publisher version
Language
- en