Despite the centrality of home in our daily lives, we have very little conscious knowledge about why our homes are the way they are, how they work, or how to make them work for us. David Week wants to change this. His Melbourne Free University course, Understanding Your Home, helps to close that gap in our understanding, and to make participants active shapers of home and home life. WEEK 4: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE HOME looks at the home's severely undervalued role in our economy. In a world where McDonald's contributes to the GDP but home cooking does not, can we learn to see value where economists do not? Guest Lucinda Hartley discusses the relationships between public and private, home and business, that make dense urban living possible.

1. Understanding Your Home
History, Psychology, Poli7cal Economy, Future
Part
4
The
Poli-cal
Economy
of
Home
©2015
David
Week
dew@assai.com.au

2. …poli%cal
economy
expanded
the
emphasis
of
economics,
which
comes
from
the
Greek
oikos
(meaning
"home")
and
nomos
(meaning
"law"
or
"order");
thus
poli-cal
economy
was
meant
to
express
the
laws
of
produc-on
of
wealth
at
the
state
level,
just
as
economics
was
the
ordering
of
the
home.
—Wikipedia

5. GDP
produc-on
boundary

12. • Reproduc-on
– future
of
the
human
race,
ECD
• Rela-onships
– primary
safety
net,
model
for
future
• Restora-on
– rest,
reflection

13. • Stuff
– macmansions,
storage
units,
the
10
000
things
• inSourcing
– television,
ikea,
big
box
retail,
homework
• Stress
– toxic
waste,
early
death,
disease,
aggression

20. Stuff
inSourcing
Stress
Reproduc-on
Rela-onships
Restora-on

27. Lucinda

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