What Chris Smaje thinks about capitalism

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Social scientist turned smallholder, who ran a market garden in Somerset for fifteen years and writes the Small Farm Future blog. Author of A Small Farm Future and Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, the book-length reply to George Monbiot's Regenesis, and the leading English-language voice for agrarian localism against ecomodernist food technology.

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1. 9 Dec 2023

   Our readingA market economy rewards putting land under campsites and horse liveries rather than under food, and that is the wrong thing to reward.

   Their wordsIn my opinion, normal market economics is incentivising the wrong things. I think its preference for horse liveries or campsites over vegetables and other local food production will lead us to disaster

   ↗Food, land, work and rent: the real story of Vallis Vegchrissmaje.com 3rd of 4 in this piece