Costas Panayotakis

Costas Panayotakis teaches sociology at New York City College of Technology. He has published on political economy, ecology and social movements and has been interviewed by numerous radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad. He is the book review editor of the international journal Capitalism Nature Socialism.  

Books by Costas Panayotakis

Remaking Scarcity

Remaking Scarcity

From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy

Costas Panayotakis

The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is in fact a result of the social and economic processes of the capitalist system. The overriding importance of the logic of capital accumulation accounts for the fact that capitalism is not able to make a rational use of scarce resources and the productive potential at the disposal of human society… (more information)