One week before Buy Nothing Day focuses the attention of activists around the world on the perils of overconsumption, groundbreaking economist, Herman Daly, zeroes in on the root cause of our financial meltdown.
Simon Critchley is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at
the New School for Social Research in New York City. He has authored
over a dozen philosophy books including the celebrated “Infinitely
Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance” in which he
argues for an ethically committed political anarchism.