This is the regular meeting of the Moving Train Book Club, for April, 2010. The selection this month is Raj Patel's 2010 book: " The Value of Nothing."

Alan Trickey will be leading the discussion and has supplied three documents to structure discussion and provide more context for understanding this book.  The files are attached below.

The publisher's description from Amazon.com begins: "Expanding on his analysis and recommendations in Stuffed and Starved, which located the horrifying imbalance in the world's food system in its profit-driven framework, activist and academic Patel critiques free market culture at a moment of universal crisis, both economic and environmental. Beginning with a historically grounded account of market society's operative assumptions, the way capitalism sets the terms of value, Patel takes aim at the notion of Homo economicus: a vision of human beings as self-interested utility-maximizers integral to market society's dollar-valuation of everything. ..."

The author is a frequent contributor to Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now" program. Here is an interview with the author announcing the book: .

It was published in January, 2010, and runs to 256 pages.