Fancis Moore Lappe, author of Diet For a Small Planet, and co-founder of the Institute For Food and Development, examines the political and economic roots of world hunger. She contends that free market concepts have superseeded the fundamental United States values of freedom, democracy and justice. Our economic institutions, she argues, must be based in those fundamental values, and linked to personal rights and responsibilities.|THE POLITICS OF HOPE : IN SEARCH OF AMERICA'S VALUES / Francis Moore Lappe. - Francis Moore Lappe, author of Diet For a Small Planet and cofounder of the Institute for Food and Development, examines the political and economic roots of world hunger. She contends that free market concepts have superseeded the fundamental United States values of freedom, democracy and justice. Our econmic institutions, she argues, must be based in those fundamental values, and linked to personal rights and responsibilities. - RECORDED: 31 May 1988.
