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

whatever else a corporation makes, it’ll invariably produce externalities.

By choosing to value the world through markets, we choose the principle of “The more money you have, the more you can get.”

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of its central focus on the plucking out of desire from our hearts, is Buddhism.

The second part of the double movement, where society reclaims power from the market, happens through demand, not gift.

He also thought that a primary animating principle behind economic activity was vanity.

According to the neoclassicals, to find its value you have to trade it—that’s the only way that our individual preferences can enter the public language of commerce.

that the opposite of consumption isn’t thrift—it’s generosity.

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