Economics

Books- Foundational

 

Daly HV. 1991. Steady-state Economics: Second Edition. Washington, DC: Island Press.

 

Korten DC. 2001. When Corporations Rule the World.  Second Edition. Bloomfield, CT and San Francisco, CA: Kumarian Press and Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

A classic critique of corporate capitalism.

 

 

Books-Recent

 

Dasgupta P. 2007. Economics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

 Klein N. 2007. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Henry Holt and Company

  Controversial, thought provoking, but with much obvious truth.

 

 

Articles- Recent

 

Arrow K, et al. 2004. Are we consuming too much? Journal of Economic Perspectives 18: 147-172.

One of the editors of this prominent journal described the co-authors with the Nobel-Prize-winning lead author as “Ken Arrows communist friends.” That suggests economics still has a long way to go to become relevant to the really big MAHB issues.

 

Ehrlich, PR. 2008. Key issues for attention from ecological economists. Environment and Development Economics 13: 1-20.

Trying to orient resource economists toward the most important issues.

 

Hall CAS, Powers R, Schoenberg W. 2008. Peak oil, EROI, Investments and the Economy in an Uncertain Future. in Pimentel D, ed. Pp. 109-132 in Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems. Berlin: Singer.

A key article on Energy Return On Investment.

 

Ehrlich PR, Goulder LH. 2007. Is current consumption excessive?  A general framework and some indications for the US. Conservation Biology 21: 1145-1154.

 

Wackernagel M, et al. 2002. Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99: 9266-9271. 

 

 

Videos

 

Growth Busters: Hooked on Growth

“From Las Vegas to Atlanta, Mexico City to Mumbai, the White House to the Vatican, GrowthBusters takes us on a whirlwind tour of growth mania. It’s Wild Kingdom with a twist: the cameras are turned on humanity as our own survival skills are examined. GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth looks into the psychology of denial and crowd behavior. It explores our obsession with urban and economic growth, and our reluctance to address overpopulation issues head-on. This documentary holds up a mirror, encouraging us to examine the beliefs and behaviors we must leave behind – and the values we need to embrace – so our children can survive and thrive.”-growthbusters.org