Life Without Money - Building Fair and Sustainable Economies

The collapse of capitalism will also be an end to money as the prime regulator of society-an eventuality both hard to imagine and necessary to understand. Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman have assembled an indispensable collection for those who are bold enough to explore this dramatic prospect. Life Without Money is an essential guidebook for the great debate now unfolding and around which our hopes for a worthwhile future unfold. -- Joel Kovel, author of Enemy of Nature (2002; 2007) and Overcoming Zionism (Pluto, 2007) A timely contribution to an under-researched and under-reported area of economics: the theory of money and proposals for alternatives to the globalised capitalist financial system. I would recommend it to anyone interested in finding ways to develop an economy that functions without money. -- Molly Scott Cato, Reader in Green Economics, Cardiff School of Management

Anitra Nelson is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at R.M.I.T. University (Australia). She is the author of Marx's Concept of Money: The God of Commodities (1999) and edited Steering Sustainability in