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Written by Ikerd J. Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: August 2005
* Addresses the philosophical and scientific roots of sustainability
* Examines neglected ethical and moral aspects of capitalist economic theory
* Advocates a new sustainable paradigm for all living organizations, businesses, economics, and societies
Over the past half-century, capitalist economics has deviated from its original [...]
Sustainable Capitalism A Matter of Common Sense - Ikerd J.
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A world to win a rough guide to a future without global capitalism - Paul Feldman, Corinna Lotz
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Written by Paul Feldman, Corinna Lotz Format(s): PDF Language: English
http://www.aworldtowin.net/about.html
A World to Win was formed in July 2005 at a launch conference in London. Our organisation runs on transparent, accountable lines and strives to involve all members in decision-making processes. We reject dogma and fixed assumptions about the world. Instead, we [...]
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The Invention of Capitalism - Michael Perelman
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Written by Michael Perelman Format(s): PDF Language: English
“…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.”
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“After reading Michael Perelman’s excellent book we see our world in different colors. The origin of market capitalism is the product of strategies pursued to take away [...]
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Rethinking Money How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity - Bernard Lietaer, Jacqui Dunne
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Written by Bernard Lietaer, Jacqui Dunne Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: February 4, 2013 | Series: BK Currents
As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to [...]
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Lobbyists at Work - Beth L. Leech
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Written by Beth L. Leech Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Release date: April 24, 2013
“Lobbyists at Work is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious business of government. Leech’s probing questions reflect her years of research tracking the real impact of money and influence on policy.” —Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (Chairman, Patton [...]
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Economics, the Environment and Our Common Wealth - James K Boyce
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Written by James K Boyce Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: February 28, 2013 | ISBN-10: 178100000X | ISBN-13: 978-1781000007
‘If you’re interested in the cutting-edge of the very best thinking on economics and the environment, it’s right here. Boyce has done a masterful job integrating issues of equity and ecological thinking into economics, [...]
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Envisioning Real Utopias - Erik Olin Wright
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Written by Erik Olin Wright Format(s): PDF Language: English
Release date: June 14, 2010
Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there has been a global retreat by the Left: on [...]
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The Great Disruption Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World - Paul Gilding
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Written by Paul Gilding Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Release date: January 31, 2012
It’s time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead, we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable; we have come to the end of a world economy based on consumption and waste, [...]
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Your Money Or Your Life 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence - Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford
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Written by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Release date: December 10, 2008
“The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management” (Los Angeles Times(on the first edition))
In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is concerned about money and how they spend what they have, this [...]
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Dollarocracy How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America - John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney
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Written by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Publication Date: June 11, 2013
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and [...]
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How Animals Grieve - Barbara J. King
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Written by Barbara J. King Format(s): EPUB Language: English
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Publication Date: March 21, 2013
From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. [...]
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Brokers of Deceit How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East - Rashid Khalidi
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Written by Rashid Khalidi Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Release date: March 12, 2013
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end [...]
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Debtors’ Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility - Robert Kuttner
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Written by Robert Kuttner Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Release date: April 30, 2013
One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe’s, now in its fifth year.
Since the [...]
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Digital Disconnect How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy - Robert W. McChesney
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Written by Robert W. McChesney Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Publication Date: March 5, 2013
Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet’s effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship [...]
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Global Values 101 A Short Course - with Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Robert Reich, Juliet Schor, Katha Pollitt, Paul F
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Written by with Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Robert Reich, Juliet Schor, Katha Pollitt, Paul F Edition: 1 Format(s): PDF Language: English
Release date: February 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0807003050 | ISBN-13: 978-0807003053 | Edition: 1
Global Values 101 grew out of one of the most popular courses ever offered at Harvard University, [...]
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The Bridge at the Edge of the World Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability - James Gustave Speth
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Written by James Gustave Speth Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: March 10, 2009
How serious are the threats to our environment? If we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be [...]
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Ecological Economics, Second Edition Principles and Applications - Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley
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Written by Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley Edition: 2nd Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: November 1, 2003 | ISBN-10: 1559633123 | ISBN-13: 978-1559633123 | Edition: 1
Conventional economics is often criticized for failing to reflect adequately the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding [...]
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Wendell Berry Life and Work - Jason Peters Editor
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Written by Jason Peters Editor Format(s): PDF Language: English
Release date: June 11, 2010 | Series: Culture of the Land
Essayist, social critic, poet, “mad farmer,” novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique [...]
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Che Guevara You Win Or You Die - Stuart A Kallen
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Written by Stuart A Kallen Format(s): PDF Language: English
Publication Date: August 1, 2012
October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had been leading guerilla fighters in the jungles of Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian army. Mario Terán, a sergeant [...]
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The Activists’ Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy - Aidan Ricketts
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Written by Aidan Ricketts Format(s): PDF Language: English
Release date: April 24, 2012 | ISBN-10: 1848135920 | ISBN-13: 978-1848135925
The Activists’ Handbook is a powerful guide to grassroots activism. A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get [...]
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