ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks a deeper understanding of how we engage with the discourses of capitalism with its manifold, dominant, and dialogical meanings. It attempts to find ways to build upon and further develop the necessary critical counter-hegemonic discourses that can challenge and ultimately derail the hegemonic representations of capitalism. The chapter roots squarely in both author's research inquiries and in his lived experiences in his efforts to continue exploring and understanding people's economic discourses in making meaning not only of their lives but the world around them. It also attempts to engage critically and dialogically with the responses from people to a mobile street artwork created by the artist Steve Lambert, entitled Capitalism Works for Me!. The analysis explores how people in these interviews draw on their lived experiences of work, unemployment, debt, and inequality in co-constructing what can be called 'economic common-sense making'.
