Awakening to a new economics
The Birmingham Jane Jacobs Award for anoutstanding contribution tothe protection ofBirmingham’s Built Environment was first awarded in 2024 and is now taking nominations for 2026. The award is named after the pioneering activist Jane Jacobs [1] who took on the city leaders of New … Continue reading 2026 Jane Jacobs Award
Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism argues that the capitalist system has been replaced by a new, even more exploitative economic order he calls technofeudalism.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
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”
The Ministry for the Future By Peter Grimwood The Ministry for the Future was the title of a meeting I attended in Oxford on June 13th sponsored by Hertford College … Continue reading The Ministry for the Future
“Your life is not made up of the things you own,” Jesus tells us, as reported in Luke 12:15. Jesus knew that the abundance of our possessions is no way … Continue reading Why our possessions possess us
In this guest post, theologian, author and speaker Eve Poole shares a summary of her book Buying God: Consumerism and Theology. Buying God unites theoretical work on theology, capitalism and … Continue reading Buying God: Eve Poole on theology and consumerism
How putting wellbeing first would help sustain life on Earth – a guest post from Teresa Belton, author of Happier People, healthier planet. Happier People Healthier Planet addresses the diametrically opposed … Continue reading Happier people, healthier planet
Jeremy Williams, author and content editor for Joy in Enough, introduces his book The Economics of Arrival.  The ‘global race’ was a favourite phrase of David Cameron while Prime Minister. … Continue reading What if development has a destination?
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