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Economists are aware that reality is always more complicated; but they are also aware that to come up with a mathematical model, one always has to make the world into a bit of a cartoon. There’s nothing wrong with this. The problem comes when it enables some (often these same economists) to declare that anyone who ignores the dictates of the market shall surely be punished—or that since we live in a market system, everything (except government interference) is based on principles of justice: that our economic system is one vast network of reciprocal relations in which, in the end, the accounts balance and all debts are paid.
Once the old public wealth has been denied and integrated into market production, those who benefit from it have no interest – quite the opposite – in returning to states of abundance outside the market. A firm that sells bottled water would have more of an objective interest in seeing public water fountains disappear. It is therefore necessary that the state of scarcity be perpetuated, even accentuated – and this is quite antithetical to a policy of rehabilitation and extension of environmental public goods.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
European colonialism may have ended here and there, but the condition of coloniality continues—not just economically, but also culturally, epistemically, morally, imaginatively.
Europe and Its Shadows
Hamid Dabashi
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