Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market

by Stuart Sim

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074864671X
• ISBN13: 9780748646715
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher