THE LIBERATING ECONOMY Beyond the Numbers—Reading Power

Economics is often narrowed down to graphs, reports, and growth figures. Behind that number there are human faces: farmers whose harvests are suppressed by prices, workers whose wages are not commensurate with labor, students who struggle to pay for college, and families who are anxious about the cost of living. This book invites us to go beyond numbers, to read the forces at work behind the economic system.
In simple yet critical language, The Liberating Economy: Beyond the Numbers, Reading the Power reveals how markets, countries, and capital often conspire to get rid of the little people. He showed that economics is not a neutral science, but an arena of battle for interests. And that’s where the courage to take sides is key: to side with those who have been defeated by the system.
This book is not just a collection of theories. He concocted criticism, history, experiences of people’s movements, to inspiration for alternative economic practices: from cooperatives, waste banks, to community-based clean energy. Everything is written in the spirit of popularity, so that it can be accessed by anyone, including students, activists, lecturers, workers, or anyone who cares about social justice.

Finally, this book is an invitation to participate. We learn not to be neutral, but to take sides. On the side of the people, on the earth, and on a more just future.