Monthly Archives: June 2022

I just ran across these three books that followers of this site might find interesting. Bob Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, … Continue reading →

Aaron Vansintjan writes: I am very excited to share that the book The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and myself will be released by Verso Books this Tuesday, June 28.

A half-century long strategy, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, is coming undone. As a result, the West’s authorities now face an impossible choice: push conglomerates and states into cascading bankruptcies or allow inflation to go unchecked. … Continue reading →

From: Mike Nickerson <Sustain5> Sun., 19 Jun. 2022 5:12 Subject: GPI; A Better Way to Guide Our World In a recent talk, Ron Colman made the case for using a spectrum of social, environmental and economic indicators to guide society … Continue reading →

In the first of a Red Pepper series on ‘neoliberalism’, Gregk Foley traces the birth of an economic ideology Neoliberal economic theory emerged after World War II, spearheaded by Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and later by … Continue reading →

An email from April 26, 2016 – still (or more) relevant today! “…a focus on “overpopulation” distracts attention away from what is the most serious issue to be confronted right now: overconsumption of natural resources fueled by an economic system … Continue reading →