Research Catalog

Title

Meme wars : the creative destruction of neoclassical economics : a real world economics textbook / by Kalle Lasn ; edited by Darren Fleet ; creative director, Pedro Inoue ; art director, Will Brown ; assistant art director, Ellen Lee ; production manager, Lauren Bercovitch.

Author

Lasn, Kalle.

Publication

London : Penguin, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Fleet, Darren.
• Inoue, Pedro.
• Brown, Will.
• Lee, Ellen.
• Bercovitch, Lauren.
• Fleet, Darren, 1979-
• Inoue, Pedro, 1977-
• Brown, Will (Designer)
• Lee, Ellen, 1987-
• Bercovitch, Lauren, 1984-
• Media Foundation (Organization)

Description

ca. 400 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

Over the last twenty years, Adbusters magazine has challenged consumerism, championed the environment and provided a platform for some of our greatest thinkers. In 2011, they instigated Occupy Wall Street, sparking a huge international movement. This thought provoking book provides the building blocks for a new way of looking at and changing our world.

Subject

• Economics > Moral and ethical aspects
• Capitalism > Social aspects
• Capitalism > Environmental aspects
• Anti-globalization movement
• Memes

Note

• "Featuring George Akerlof, Margaret Atwood, Lourdes Benería, Herman Daly, Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Manfred Max-Neef, David Orrell, Bill Rees, John Ralston Saul, Joseph Stiglitz".
• "An Adbusters first things first project"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical blink -- Paradigm lost -- The logic freaks -- Meet the mavericks -- The new science of bionomics -- The new science of psychonomics -- Your place in the revolution -- Singularity or nightfall? -- Early pioneers -- The birth of a new aesthetic.

ISBN

• 9781846146985 (pbk.)
• 1846146984 (pbk.)

OCLC

820105387

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library