What question did this study set out to answer?

To analyze the conflict between the global market's values and the principles of a life-centered economy.

March 1, 2003Choice Reviews Online96 citations

Value wars: the Global market versus the life economy

Key Points

To analyze the conflict between the global market's values and the principles of a life-centered economy.
Thematic analysis of the relationship between corporate systems and societal impact.
Critical examination of historical and contemporary market ethics.
Exploration of regulatory frameworks affecting the life economy.
Highlights the emergence of corporate absolutism as a dominant economic paradigm.
Identifies ecological threats from current market practices, suggesting accountability through life standards.
Proposes a rules-based international framework to promote planetary survival through life economy principles.

Abstract

Preface PART I THE NEW WORLD ORDER Chapter 1 Inevitability and terror:the unseen pattern Chapter 2 Return of the genocidal war Chapter 3 Decoding the global market ethic PART II UNLOCKING THE INVISIBLE PRISON Chapter 4 Property, punishment and prisons: the origins of corporate absolutism Chapter 5 Understanding the new totalitarianism of the global market Chapter 6 The master regulators of the world system: science, technology and money capital PART III THE PARADIGM TURN: THE LIFE ECONOMY FROM WHERE WE STAND Chapter 7 Regulating the money system for life capital Chapter 8 Preventing ecocide: making commodity cycles accountable to life standards Chapter 9 Global regulation by life standards: a rules-based international life economy for planetary survival Index

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