
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy

artificial people were more worrisome because they could never have enough.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
The use of punishment to condemn uncooperative behavior is a
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
experiments show that people cooperate best in situations where they themselves can adapt and change the rules of the game.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Polanyi’s double movement—responding to the transformation of the world into property and the destruction of ways of managing shared resources.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
“positional goods”—the kinds of goods that reflect your social status back to you and to society—is
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
By choosing to value the world through markets, we choose the principle of “The more money you have, the more you can get.”
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
fundamental building block of fairness, and a way that society is regulated
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
happens when happiness is not acquired by receiving money, but by giving it away.