Understanding the Home, Week 4: Political Economy of the Home

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Understanding Your Home History, Psychology, Poli7cal Economy, Future Part 4 The Poli-cal Economy of Home ©2015 David Week [email protected]

Transcript of Understanding the Home, Week 4: Political Economy of the Home

Understanding  Your  Home  History,  Psychology,  Poli7cal  Economy,  Future

Part  4  The  Poli-cal  Economy  of  Home  

   

©2015  David  Week  [email protected]  

…poli%cal  economy  expanded  the  emphasis  of  economics,  which  comes  from  the  Greek  

oikos  (meaning  "home")  and  nomos  (meaning  "law"  or  "order");  thus  poli-cal  economy  was  meant  to  express  the  laws  of  produc-on  of  wealth  at  the  state  level,  just  as  economics  was  the  ordering  of  the  home.  

 —Wikipedia  

GDP  

produc-on  boundary  

• Reproduc-on  – future  of  the  human  race,  ECD  

• Rela-onships  – primary  safety  net,  model  for  future  

• Restora-on  – rest,  reflection  

• Stuff  – macmansions,  storage  units,  the  10  000  things  

• inSourcing  – television,  ikea,  big  box  retail,  homework  

• Stress  – toxic  waste,  early  death,  disease,  aggression  

Stuff  

inSourcing  

Stress  

Reproduc-on  

Rela-onships  

Restora-on  

Lucinda

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