Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism - Paul Collier & John Kay

Category: Misc. Non-fiction, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Capitalism Economics Greed individualism Neoliberalism Politics

Written by Paul Collier & John Kay
Format: MP3

The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership has dominated politics for the last 30 years (from some perspectives, much longer).

This book shows that the age of homo economicus and centralisation is coming to an end. Instead, Collier and Kay argue that community and mutuality will be the drivers of successful societies in the future - as they are already in some parts of the world. They show how politics can reverse the trend to the to the extreme right and that progressive politics can be the way forward and that if we think differently we can find common ground to the benefit of all.