Title: Liberating the Economy from the Market
Subtitle: Between Induced Desire and Insatiable Growth
Subject Classification:  Economics and Finance, Community, Sociology  
BIC Classification: KC, JFS, JF
BISAC Classification: BUS029000, BUS072000, SOC026040
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Jun 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-238-8
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-239-5

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Description

Authors Leonardo Lavanderos and Alejandro Malpartida dismantle the ideological scaffolding of contemporary capitalism, exposing its structural contradictions and radical disconnection from the conditions that sustain life. This book is not merely a critique—it deconstructs and reconfigures, proposing an economy that transcends the reductionist mechanics of supply and demand in order to restore the essential link between culture and nature.

The authors discuss how conventional economics - obsessed with abstract metrics and empty indicators - erased the relational and ecological dimensions that underpin the viability of both human and non-human communities. The book is an intellectual rebuff to those who have turned the economy into a machine of entropy, uprooting, and devastation.

Drawing from the concept of ecopoiesis, the authors call for a paradigmatic shift toward a regenerative, relational, and systemically sustainable economy. An essential text for students and researchers in economics, sustainability, sociology, and societal futures.

Biography

Author(s):  Leonardo Lavanderos is a distinguished biologist and holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Chile. He is recognized for his transdisciplinary approach, which integrates biology, systems theory, cybernetics, and the study of complex organizations. Together with co-author Alejandro Malpartida, professor and medical doctor, he developed the relational theory of knowledge, and the theory of ecopoiesis.

Alejandro Malpartida is a professor and medical doctor with a doctorate in Natural Sciences, with a prominent academic and research career in cybernetics, systems theory, and relational epistemology. Alongside Leonardo Lavanderos, he is co-founder of the theory of ecopoiesis, a groundbreaking approach that seeks to regenerate the fundamental relations between culture and nature, moving beyond the reductionism of traditional autopoiesis.

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