Jean-Pierre Changeux, Gerald M Edelman

The Brain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past 15 years, local money networks, which are essentially trading networks using a community-created currency, have emerged in countries as far apart as Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the US, continental Europe and Japan. They range from Local Exchange Trading Schemes (UK), to Time Dollars (US), Green Dollars (New Zealand, Australia and Canada), Trading Circles (Hungary), Barter Networks (Argentina) and Talents (Germany). Drawing on an ethnographic case study of alternative currency movements in Manchester, UK, this book provides an analysis of the motivations, aims, successes and failures of alternative currency networks. It also raises questions such as the contribution of the alternative currency movement to current debates about alternatives to neoliberalism. While it is theoretically informed, critical and grounded in fieldwork, it is also sympathetic to the political aims of the protagonists and cognisant of the non-economic benefits that arise from their development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138534506
• ISBN-10: 1138534501
• Artikelnr.: 53169232

Autorenporträt

Jean-Pierre Changeux, Gerald M. Edelman

Inhaltsangabe

Brain Science at the Century's Ebb
Building a Picture of the Brain
Art and the Brain
The Functional Architecture of the Brain
From Molecules to Mental States
Drug Use and Abuse
The Quest for the Essence of Sleep
The Evolution and Modification of Brains and Sensory Systems
The Acquisition of Motor Behavior
Unity and Diversity in the Human Brain: Evidence from Injury
Where Brain, Body, and World Collide