by René Ramírez Gallegos, Rafael Correa · El Viejo Topo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416288205
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«La vida (buena) como riqueza de los pueblos» is the essay by René Ramírez Gallegos, with a foreword by Rafael Correa, published by El Viejo Topo in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
The book proposes a political socioecology of time: it criticises neoclassical economics and posits «buen vivir» (good living) as the unit of value, instead of money. It analyses the case of Ecuador and the social distribution of time, showing how labour exploitation, exclusion and discrimination expropriate well-lived time. It argues for replacing GDP and other conventional measures with an index of healthy, well-lived life, and orientates the economy towards relational goods such as love, friendship, participation and the relationship with nature.
Aimed at readers interested in critical economics, public policy, political philosophy and debates on development and buen vivir in Latin America.
