by Viviane Forrester, Ana Barradas · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727101627
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«O Horror Económico», essay by Viviane Forrester and Ana Barradas on economy and society. Terramar, 1997, Portuguese, 180 pp.
The work denounces how political and economic elites continue to present employment as the norm, even though the system drives millions of people into exclusion. Forrester criticizes the rhetoric of work and the feeling of uselessness that weighs on those who find no place in it, and offers a reflection on the human costs of the contemporary economy and the need to rethink its priorities.
Essay of social and economic criticism, originally published in French as «L'horreur économique» and winner of the Prix Médicis essai in 1996. This Portuguese edition, in paperback, was translated by Ana Barradas.
Recommended for readers interested in politics, critical economics and social essay, especially those seeking perspectives on work, unemployment and inequality.
Viviane Forrester was an essayist, novelist, journalist and literary critic.
