The Habitation Society
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Fred Block, one of the world's leading political sociologists, offers a compelling analysis of the workings and failings of our contemporary political economy. He shows how our economic structures, institutions and concepts continue to cling to a now obsolete industrial economy and how our methods for understanding how the economy functions are no longer adequate. We must grasp a new reality of a habitation economy where we buy and consume services very differently. This requires us to rethink many of our assumptions about economy and society and invites a new framework for policy that can make the economy work more effectively and justly for families and their communities.
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Fred Block is Research Professor of Sociology at University of California Davis. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading economic and political sociologists. He has served on the Board of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy since 1989 and is the author, most recently, of Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion (2018).
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1. Accounting for morbid symptoms
2. Why habitation?
3. Commodification without the commodities
4. The irony of corporate dominance
5. What counts as investment?
6. Dysfunctional financing
7. Democratizing habitation
