Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free-Market

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The Dark Side of the Profit Motive      Addicted to Profit Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free-Market      Stuart Sim   Order Your Copy Now and Save 50%! We'd like to offer you 50% off orders of Addicted to Profit. To save 50%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code SALE in the coupon code field at check out. Click on "apply" and your savings will be calculated.* Will our addiction to profit destroy the world we live in? The profit motive now exercises an effective tyranny over our lives: in the private as well as the public sector, nowhere seems immune from its reach. International tycoons, economists and politicians are obsessed with economic growth. Yet, as Stuart Sim shows, the pursuit of excessive profit brought the world to the brink of economic chaos in the recent credit crisis and threatens us with environmental disaster as well. Despite this, neoliberalism still sets the agenda for economic policy in the West. Sim suggests various 'act up' strategies so that we might resist becoming slaves to personal gain and, in doing so, he demonstrates that life needn't be all about profit.   Key Features: Analyzes the psychology behind our fetishization of profit Demonstrates the threat that neoliberalism poses to our public services - healthcare and education in particular Explores the debate of altruism versus self-interest through the neuroscientific literature Argues the case for a return to a more socialistic consciousness to combat neoliberalism Stuart Sim is Professor of Critical Theory and Long Eighteenth-Century English Literature in the Dept. of English & Creative Writing, Northumbria University. The author or editor of 31 books, his work has been translated into 17 languages. He was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2002. Amongst his recent publications are The End of Modernity, and The Lyotard Dictionary (both EUP).     ORDER THE BOOK  $37.50 $18.75 (with the discount code SALE) - Paper - 244 pages * Coupon only applicable for customers in North America. All other customers please visit Edinburgh University Press. * 50% Sale available for limited time only. If SALE code no longer applies, please use the code ADDSI for 30% discount. For more titles in:  Political Philosophy     FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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