Awakening to a new economics
The last book I read by Tim Jackson, Post Growth, saw him stepping back from what you might expect from an economist and taking a more narrative driven, philosophical approach. … Continue reading Book review: The Care Economy, by Tim Jackson
Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism argues that the capitalist system has been replaced by a new, even more exploitative economic order he calls technofeudalism. The book has generated significant … Continue reading Book review: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
We hear a lot these days about the energy transition as something that needs to happen in order to move into a decarbonized economy, and for the world to meet … Continue reading The energy transition: Something that will never happen?!
by Jeremy Williams There is no political spectrum when it comes to growth. There is one God and one creed. In her brief tenure as Prime Minister, Liz Truss declared … Continue reading Growth: A Reckoning, by Daniel Susskind
At a recent on line  talk for the Joy in Enough community we were privileged to hear a talk by Dr Ian Christie from the Centre for the understanding of … Continue reading “The Honor Code”
Guy Standing is a radical economist and the author of the counter-cultural The Plunder of the Commons and Basic Income. Both of those books looked at what we share and … Continue reading The Politics of Time, by Guy Standing
Peter Grimwood shares his thoughts on Kate Rigby’s new book of meditations on creation and crisis. This is an extraordinarily creative book and the only dull thing about it is … Continue reading Review: Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
All life happens within limits – we all get 24 hours a day and our allotted lifespan. Everything unfolds within the natural laws of gravity and thermodynamics and a thousand … Continue reading Book review: Limitarianism, by Ingrid Robeyns
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