Endorsements

This is a work of sustained blasphemy. It lays bare the absurd assumptions of that lethal religion called 'mainstream economics'. Rist's book undermines the faith at the deepest level. True believers beware!' - Edward Fullbrook, Editor of Real-World Economics Review 'Rist has put before us a very powerful critique of economics. ... This book is a great contribution to getting beyond the contemporary pseudo-religion of economics and warrants the widest audience and discussion.' - Trent Schroyer, Ramapo College of New Jersey 'Drawing on a wealth of historical and anthropological evidence, Professor Rist brilliantly explains how mainstream economic doctrines - including the latest Green Economy initiative - rest on quasi-religious beliefs and assumptions that are deeply committed to the further commodification of social relations and nature. In this remarkable book, Gilbert Rist invites us to think outside the box and collectively invent radically different forms of economic exchange and ways of 'living well together'. The intellectual audacity of this book will no doubt fire peoples' social imagination: a fundamentally new economic paradigm is indeed possible and can be consciously invented by citizens. Gilbert Rist makes it also abundantly clear that human dignity, social justice, equity, cultural diversity, and ecological survival on Earth now depend on such a transformation.' - Dr Michel Pimbert, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) 'A fine, extensive and accessible synthesis, which for that reason one can only hope will be widely read.' - Le Portail francophone des sciences sociales 'The book dispels the basic myths of economics and cleverly brings the reader to glimpse a new paradigm.' - Aziz Fall, Relations, Montréal 'With his new way of thinking of society, Rist makes us relive - from a different angle and in a different age - what Marx achieved in the 'Critique of Political Economy' with his ethnological focus on society' - Aziz Fall, Relations, Montréal 'Gilbert Rist proposes a different way of conceiving of the economy and therefore society' - L'Ecologiste 'The work remains a clear and useful antidote to mainstream economic thinking.' - Gilles Raveaud, Alternatives économiques