We live nextdoor to my partner’s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, “why?”, and then she was curious in which pot we were planning to boil the diapers. In her eyes, we could not possibly...
One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes. Growth is then seen as the natural product of a free, ‘self-regulated market’. The destiny of the economy...
Wer produziert, muss auch die Möglichkeit haben, seine Arbeitskraft zu reproduzieren. Unser heutiges Leben in einer westlichen Gesellschaft untersteht der Logik des Kapitalismus. Ist es da nicht folgerichtig, auch den Reproduktionsaspekt des Alltags in das ökonomische System einzugliedern? Die Antwort auf diese Frage lautet meiner Meinung nach: nein, und zwar aus folgenden Gründen: Bis vor wenigen [...]
