{"product_id":"meme-wars-isbn-9781609804732","title":"Meme Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eEngrossing, exciting \u003c\/b\u003e[...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ...\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thought-provoking and creative\" — Julie Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a Molotov cocktail tossed into the boardroom. \"— \u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics \u003c\/i\u003eis an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model. \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e aims to accelerate the shift into this new paradigm that takes into account psychonomics, bionomics, and other aspects of our physical and mental environment that are often left out in discussions of economics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike \u003ci\u003eAdbusters\u003c\/i\u003e, the book will be image heavy and full-color throughout. Lasn calls it \"a textbook for the future\" that provides the building blocks, in texts and visuals, for a new way of looking at and changing our world. Through an examination of alternative economies, Lasn hopes to spur students to become \"barefoot economists\" and to see that a humanization of economics is possible. \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e will include contributions from Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Samuelson, George Akerlof, Lourdes Benería, Julie Matthaei, Manfred Max-Neef, David Orrell, Paul Gilding, Mathis Wackernagel and the father of ecological economics Herman Daly, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on ideas that were presented in a special issue of \u003ci\u003eAdbusters\u003c\/i\u003e entitled \"Thought Control in Economics: Beyond the Growth Paradigm \/ An Activist Toolkit,\" \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e will help move forward the Occupy Wall Street movement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Adbusters magazine and its editor Kalle Lasn have been at the forefront of the global resistance to capitalism exemplified by the Occupy movement. Their new book, \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars: the Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economies\u003c\/i\u003e, uses startling images to back up its hard-hitting points. \" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays in \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars \u003c\/i\u003eare engrossing, exciting even. This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics by offering critique after critique of the way the subject is written about and taught, indeed of the very conceptual categories we use when we debate about how goods are produced and distributed, services provided and resources extracted. By turns wonky and visionary, \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e ... brings together a group of accomplished writers, most of them academics, who approach the world’s economic, environmental and social problems in ways one seldom finds in mainstream journalism or economics departments.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading for anyone wants to challenge their ideas about the modern economy and the people who champion it.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMeme Wars is a textbook for a new way of thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, Straight.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thought-provoking and creative\" \u003cbr\u003e—Julie Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Meme Wars \u003c\/i\u003eshould be required reading for anyone wants to challenge their ideas about the modern economy and the people who champion it.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Miranda Nelson, \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Straight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Meme Wars \u003c\/i\u003eis a kind of anti-textbook, which uses words and images to explore the dark spaces that surround conventional economic theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e—David Orrell  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays in \u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e are engrossing, exciting even. This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics by offering critique after critique of the way the subject is written about and taught, indeed of the very conceptual categories we use when we debate about how goods are produced and distributed, services provided and resources extracted. By turns wonky and visionary, Meme Wars ... brings together a group of accomplished writers, most of them academics, who approach the world’s economic, environmental and social problems in ways one seldom finds in mainstream journalism or economics departments.\" \u003cbr\u003e—The Literary Review of Canada \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeme Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a Molotov cocktail tossed into the boardroom.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn internationally known documentarian and anti-consumerism activist, \u003cb\u003eKALLE LASN\u003c\/b\u003e is the publisher of Adbusters magazine and founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation and Powershift Advertising Agency. With \u003ci\u003eAdbusters\u003c\/i\u003e, he has dedicated himself to launching such social media campaigns as Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week, and to fighting legal battles for the right to access public airwaves. Much of his activism has taken the form of “culture jamming”—a term he coined and illustrated his first book, \u003ci\u003eCulture Jam\u003c\/i\u003e. Lasn, along with Adbusters senior editor Micah White and Adbusters’ 90,000-strong global network of activists, instigated the first #OccupyWallStreet event on 17, 2011. Lasn lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eADBUSTERS\u003c\/b\u003e is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, advertising-free magazine with a circulation of approximately 70,000. It puts forward anticapitalist, pro-environment concerns through incisive philosophical essays, activist commentary, and advertising spoofs. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters past and present contributors include Slavoj Žižek, David Graeber, Simon Critchley, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Matt Taibbi, Bill McKibben, Douglas Rushkoff, Jonathan Cook, and Chris Hedges, among others.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303411765477,"sku":"NP9781609804732","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609804732.jpg?v=1767732537","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/meme-wars-isbn-9781609804732","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}