{"title":"Guy Standing","description":"\u003cp\u003eGuy Standing offers a compelling exploration of contemporary economic and social issues, challenging traditional views on labour, capital, and the commons. His works, including \u003cem\u003eBasic Income\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Corruption of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e, provide critical insights into the structures that shape modern society and advocate for meaningful reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thought-provoking analysis that bridges education and political theory, engaging with debates on human capital, inequality, and the future of democracy. Standing's scholarship invites reflection on the systemic forces influencing global economics and social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"basic-income-by-guy-standing-9780141985480","title":"Basic Income","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essential guide to understanding the real economics behind a universal basic income\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA basic income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only by a few. Political parties across the world are now adopting it as official policy, and the idea generates headlines every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Standing has been at the forefront of thought about \u003cem\u003eBasic Income\u003c\/em\u003e for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work and labour; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against basic income; explains what we can learn from pilot studies across the world and illustrates exactly why a basic income has now become such an urgent necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46354623135980,"sku":"9780141985480","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14656783482238.jpg?v=1744284368"},{"product_id":"the-blue-commons-by-guy-standing-9780241475881","title":"The Blue Commons","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn expose of the plunder of the world's oceans, and the devastating economic and environmental impact this is having across the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the world's oceans, aided by global finance and complicit states, following the neoliberal maxim of Blue Growth. The situation is dire—rampant exploitation and corruption now drive all aspects of the ocean economy, destroying communities, intensifying inequalities, and driving fish populations and other ocean life towards extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Blue Commons\u003c\/em\u003e is an urgent call for change, from a campaigning economist responsible for some of the most innovative solutions to inequality of recent times. From large nations bullying smaller nations into giving up eco-friendly fishing policies to the profiteering by the Crown Estate in commandeering much of the British seabed, the scale of the global problem is synthesised here for the first time, as well as a toolkit for all of us to rise up and tackle it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe oceans have been left out of calls for a Green New Deal but must be at the centre of the fight against climate change. How do we do it? By building a Blue Commons alternative—a transformative worldview and new set of proposals that prioritise the historic rights of local communities, the wellbeing of all people and, with it, the health of our oceans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46355127009516,"sku":"9780241475881","price":29.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26558143482273.jpg?v=1744298468"},{"product_id":"plunder-of-the-commons-by-guy-standing-9780141990620","title":"Plunder of the Commons","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA vital and incisive solution to many of the problems society faces today—we must reclaim the commons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events, and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and oil companies. This plunder deprives us all of our common rights, recognised as far back as the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest of 1217, to share fairly and equitably in our public wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Standing leads us through a new appraisal of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal of the resources we all hold in common—a brilliant new synthesis that crystallises quite how much public wealth has been redirected to the 1% in recent decades through the state-approved exploitation of everything from our land to our state housing, health and benefit systems, to our justice system, schools, newspapers, and even the air we breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlunder of the Commons\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a charter for a new form of commoning, of remembering, guarding, and sharing that which belongs to us all, to slash inequality and soothe our current political instability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849714913516,"sku":"9780141990620","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14708183482238.jpg?v=1759060372"},{"product_id":"human-capital-by-guy-standing-9780241688182","title":"Human Capital","description":"A searing indictment of our broken education system today, and how we revive it\n\nDoes the education system make better people? Why are so many - teachers and students alike - stressed and dissatisfied? Do we need to revive real education?\n\nIdeally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital - skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market - has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals.\n\nIn this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education - intrinsically a common public good - has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it. Human Capital charts how the education industry largely serves commercial interests, not its teachers and students, and considers how to revive its lost values, to save society for the common good.","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288511496428,"sku":"9780241688182","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7d2d2857cb037707e7db9a628ead17ff.jpg?v=1770630358"},{"product_id":"the-corruption-of-capitalism-by-guy-standing-9781785906817","title":"The Corruption of Capitalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen it was originally published in 2016, \u003ci\u003eThe Corruption of Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e introduced the concept of rentier capitalism, whereby a small, rich cadre controls access to property and profit without actually contributing to society. In this third edition of his bestselling polemic, celebrated labour economist Guy Standing brings his tale of corruption up to date to encompass debates around the pandemic slump and Brexit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a lie at the heart of global capitalism. Politicians, financiers, and global bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, but they have constructed the most unfree market system ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is corrupt because income is channelled to the owners of property—financial, physical and intellectual—at the expense of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis classic book reveals how global capitalism is rigged in favour of rentiers to the detriment of the precariat and others—an inequity that has been made starker by the advent of coronavirus. A plutocracy and elite enriches itself not through production of goods and services but through ownership of assets and the privatisation of public services. 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