Value of Nothing - Paperback

by Rajeev Charles Patel (Author)

Economics is about choices, but who gets to make them? Patel shows how free market fundamentalism has distorted how consumers value their world.

Author Biography

Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved, is an activist and academic who has been hailed as a visionary for his prescience about the food crisis. Raj has worked for the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and has protested against them on four continents. He is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First.