Irene Sotiropoulou is Senior Lecturer in the Business School at Edge Hill University, UK, where she is specializes in ecological, feminist, solidarity and non-capitalist economics.
In Greece, the financial and economic crisis of 2009 produced a social crisis. A multitude of grassroots initiatives responded to it, and some of these experimented with methods of production and exchange outside the mainstream economy. Irene Sotiropoulou's research considers how such ventures can develop tools and technologies, in particular those that quantify and measure work and goods, independently of, and in opposition to, capitalism and patriarchy - issues that will concern all who hope for social change. * Simon Pirani, Honorary Professor, University of Durham * [C]harts a hugely fertile direction of travel for progressive economics in an area that has been considerably undertheorised. * Morning Star *