DEBT OR DEMOCRACY: PUBLIC MONEY FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Book ID/图书代码： 10953015B86207
English Summary/英文概要： Debt or Democracy explodes the myths behind modern money. It challenges the neoliberal obsession with public debt and deficit, arguing that a much more serious problem is the privatised creation of money through bank debt that leads to boom and bust.
Far from being a burden on the taxpayer, Mary Mellor argues that public money and public expenditure is necessary for economic well-being. Arguing that money is a public resource that should be under democratic control, Debt or Democracy directly challenges conventional economic thinking and presents a radical alternative for socially just and ecologically sustainable provisioning.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书研究现代货币背后的神话。它挑战了新自由主义对于公共债务和赤字的痴迷，认为通过银行债务私有化创造出来的货币导致的繁荣和萧条将是一个更严重的问题。
Mary Mellor认为，公共资金和公共支出对于维护健康的经济体系十分必要，它们远不是纳税人的负担。本书认为金钱是一种公共资源，因此因该使之处在民主控制之下。本书直接挑战了传统的经济思想，并提出了基于社会公正和生态可持续供应的彻底改变方式。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：Mary Mellor对于货币的本质、对于支撑货币体系运行的机构以及对于我们的货币体系运行所在的经济框架理解透彻。我很期待本书的出版，也大力推荐本书。因为钱，用经济学的术语来说，无非是文明社会的社交和经济关系的载体，它应该是社会学家以及经济学家强烈关注并研究的事物。但可悲的是，两个学科都没有对它付出足够的重视。Mary Mellor是两个权威地写了有关钱的事情的社会学家之一（另一个是Geoffrey Ingham），而且她的作品更容易读懂。（Ann Pettifor，全球金融体系分析者，曾著有《Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance》，现任宏观经济政策研究部（PRIME）负责人）
有见地，发人深省的分析。本书清楚地说明了为什么基于债务的货币体系必然导致危机。（Ben Dyson，曾著有《Positive Money》）
Mary Mellor has a superb understanding of the nature of money; of the institutions that underpin our monetary system, and of the economic frameworks within which monetary systems operate. I have looked forward to the publication of this book, and highly recommend it to readers. Because money is nothing more than civilisation’s social and economic relationships, expressed in monetary terms, it should be a matter of intense focus of study for sociologists, as well as economists. Sadly, neither discipline has paid the subject sufficient attention. Mary Mellor is one of two fine sociologists (the other is Geoffrey Ingham) that writes authoritatively about money - and whose writing is highly accessible. (Ann Pettifor, analyst of the global financial system, author of Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance and Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME))
By challenging entrenched myths about money and economic value, Mary Mellor demonstrates the need to change the way in which money is created, in order to stop the private sector undermining the public sector and enable a shift to an economy that is environmentally sustainable and socially just. Fresh, clear and incisive. (Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at Lancaster University)
Prospering without growth requires reclaiming the creation of money from private banks. Now that even the likes of the IMF and the Bank of England entertain the idea of public money, how money is to be made public is as important as ever. And Mary Mellor’s book has the right answers. (Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Professor, ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, SOAS)
An insightful and thought-provoking analysis. This book clearly shows why a monetary system based on debt inevitably leads to crisis. (Ben Dyson, Positive Money)
About the Author/作者介绍： Mary Mellor是诺森比亚大学荣誉教授，她同时也是大学可持续城市研究所的创会主席。她作为社会主义者、女权主义者和绿色环保人士，将这些话题和经济整合在一起，发表了不少文章。她曾著有《The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource》（Pluto，2002年）。
Mary Mellor is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, where she was founding Chair of the University’s Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She has published extensively on alternative economics integrating socialist, feminist and green perspectives. Her books include The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource (Pluto, 2002).
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