too long to copy, but a great synopsis of neoliberal economics in the form of a stageplay with characters – p59-61
ditto, the alternative – p62-3
“How productive would your workforce be if it hadn’t been toilet trained?” Alvin Toffler p69
“if women were paid the going hourly rate for eac of their roles—switching between housekeeper and daycare teacher to van driver and cleaner—then stay-at-hhome mums would earn around $120,000 each year.” p69 And that was in 2014.
“Even mothers who do head out to work each day would earn an extra $70,000 on top of their actual wages, given all the unpaid care they also provide at home.” p69
“I’m aware of no other profession that has been so cavalier regarding its responsibilities” George DeMartino, economist and ethicist at the University of Denver, speaking of the profession of economics p137
photograph of a sign at a vacant lot identified by Raworth as “political performance art by Fay Lewis, Rockford, Illinois 1914”
“Everybody Works but the Vacant Lot” – “I paid $3600 for this lot and will hold ’till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of tis community and enterprise of its people. I take the profit without earning it. For the remedy read ‘Henry George’. Yours truly, Fay Lewis.” p153
And worse, made possible, in the case of waterfront lots purchased by people ‘investing’ in such property, by destroying the natural beauty and value just enough to encourage re-purchase by, for example, ‘clearing’ the lot (cutting down the beautiful and valuable trees, leveling the land, and replacing the natural vegetation with a lawn) and then putting in a driveway and a dock
(Frankly, I think all waterfront development should be declared in hiatus; certainly here where I live, the lots should have been much bigger (resulting in lower density) or half as many identified as available for development.)
