{"product_id":"critique-of-economic-reason-isbn-9781844676675","title":"Critique of Economic Reason","description":"André Gorz’s earlier books—from \u003ci\u003eEcology as Politics\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eFarewell to the Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePaths to Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In \u003ci\u003eCritique of Economic Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, he offers his fullest account to date of the terminal crisis of a system where every activity and aspiration has been subjected to the rule of the market. By carefully delineating the existential and cultural limits of economic rationality, he emphasizes the urgent need to create a society which rejects the work ethic in favor of an emancipatory ethic of free time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of his alternative is an advocacy not of “full employment,” but of an equal distribution of the diminishing amount of necessary paid work. He presents a practical strategy for reducing the working week, and develops a radical version of a guaranteed wage for all. Above all, he argues that a utopian vision is now the only realistic proposal, and that “economic reason must be returned to its true—that is subordinate—place.”\u003cb\u003eAndre Gorz\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Austria in 1924, and moved to Paris in 1948, going on to become an editor of \u003ci\u003eLes Temps Modernes\u003c\/i\u003e. He was one of the founders of \u003ci\u003eLe Nouvel Observateur\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote for it under the pseudonym of Michel Bosquet for some twenty years. His books \u003ci\u003eCritique of Economic Reason\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e are published by Verso.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301893591269,"sku":"NP9781844676675","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844676675.jpg?v=1767724273","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/critique-of-economic-reason-isbn-9781844676675","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}