Reading, References and internet videos

 

 

Herman E Daly and Joshua Farley. "Ecological Economics", Island Press, 2004 A textbook of ecological economics one of whose authors, Herman E Daly, is one of the original pioneers of the subject.


Herman E. Daly "Uneconomic growth in theory and in fact" First annual Feasta Lecture 1999 , in Feasta Review number one, Dublin 2001 - available at http://www.feasta.org/documents/feastareview/daly1.pdf


Tides Foundation/Annie Leonard The Story of Stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM


Richard Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon (eds) "Fleeing Vesuvius. Overcoming the consequences of economic and environmental collapse" Feasta Books 2011 available as separate downloadable articles from http://fleeingvesuvius.org/contents/


Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner and Andrew Jackson "Where does money come from? A guide to the UK monetary and banking system" New Economics Foundation, 2011 Explains how the banking system creates new money and concludes that the current money system is inhererently unstable.


Steve Keen "Debunking Economics. The Naked Emperor Dethroned", Zed Books 2011 This is a sort of anti-textbook that demolishes most of the theory found found in standard economics textbooks. It has little on ecological and environmental issues however. Very thorough in what it does but not for beginners.


Phillip B Smith and Manfred Max-Neef "Economics Unmasked. From power and greed to compassion and the common good". Green Books 2011. Another general critique of mainstream economics - this one concentrates on social justice and environmental issues.


Fred Harrison "Boom Bust." Shepheard -Walwyn Publishers, 2005 A study of the economics of the land market and the financial system. Harrison is also associated with the Renegade Economist blog http://www.renegadeeconomist.com/


http://michael-hudson.com/2012/03/film-real-estate-4-ransom/ Real estate for ransom -- Australian internet video on the role of property speculation, land and rent in the Great Recession. This internet video is on the website of Professor Michael Hudson who, taking a viewpoint derived from of the classical economists, views most neo-classical theory, that justifies the predations of the finance, real estate and insurance sector, as "junk".


Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and the rise of disaster capitalism


http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg


Yves Smith, "Econned" Palgrave Macmillan 2010 This book is an expose of the corruption and lawlessness of Wall Street high finance by an author who runs the Naked Capitalism blog http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/


internet video lecture on economic crime by a Professor of Law and Economics, William K Black Why Elite Frauds Cause Recurrent, Intensifying Economic, Political and Moral Crises.

https://webdisk.lclark.edu/econ/steinhardt2010/steinhardt2010.html


Daniel W. Bromley and Jouni Paavola (eds), "Economics, Ethics and Environmental Policy. Contested Choices." Blackwell Publishing, 2002 a set of essays that debate the philosophical basis of economics thinking on the environment. Good to help understand the limits of benefit cost analysis and the utilitarian concepts at the heart of economics that turn nature into a human artefact.


internet video Clive L Spash "The Limitations and Dangers of Economic Valuation. Reflections on the 'New' Approach to Bio-Policy" Videod lecture - shows the questionable logic and ethical issues involved in market approaches to protecting biodiversity http://vimeo.com/20787185


internet video Clive L. Spash "The Brave New World of Carbon Trading" - debunks the arguments for the current carbon trading regime - these are ideas for which Spash was censored and ended up having to resign his job

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWQ4ENYKZz4&feature=player_embedded


Brian Davey (ed) "Sharing for Survival: Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society" Feasta Books 2012


Clive L Spash Fallacies of economic growth in addressing environmental losses: Human Induced climatic change. Article that does what it says on the tin. www.clivespash.org/fgml.pdf


How to help create environmentally sustainable and self-reliant neighbourhoods http://www.lifewithoutmoney.info/images/Achieve%20Now.pdf - Start living now as you may have to during energy descent!