Challenges the benefits of relying on a market economy and offers more socially responsible alternatives. Approximately half of the 21 chapters were papers presented at a conference on alternatives to economic rationalism, sponsored by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney where all three editors work. The other chapters were commissioned. Includes a list of references after each chapter, and notes on the contributors (including co-editors, Gordon Rodley and Frank Stilwell). Indexed.