New Frontiers of Money

Today, a compromise between capitalism and social democracy seems a very distant prospect. The same tendencies are at work worldwide - the lessening importance of the State's economic role, the weakening of the unions, intensifying competition and deregulated work market. Everywhere the market is breaking away from the supervision of the political world and revealing new inequalities between individuals, social groups, countries and continents. And this is only the visible aspect of the triumph of the market and of the neo-liberal economy. Money, whose new boundaries are the driving force behind this book, continues to conquer new ground, gain new legitimacy and is becoming the new measure of all exchange and of all value.Bernard Perret's critique of the increasing power of money and how it affects our social, political and personal lives shows how this unregulated power is jeopardizing vital aspects of civilization. He proposes a movement towards an economy which values diversity of activity and exchange, which will permit us to rediscover the community-based aspect of democracy. His book invites us not to let the market be the only one dictating how we should live.Perret, Bernard is the author of 'New Frontiers of Money', published 2004 under ISBN 9781843310075 and ISBN 1843310074.