Book Review: Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie This is a refreshingly adult conversation, in which doomsayers and climate change deniers alike are effectively refuted. In this book, Hannah Ritchie presents a strategic plan for an environmentally healthy Earth—it can …
Category Archives: Socioeconomic Policy
How the World Made the West
Book Review: How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History by Josephine Quinn The historical evidence presented in this book provides cause for rethinking fundamental assumptions about our contemporary geopolitical and societal structures worldwide. Through long term and thorough analysis of archaeological and written artifacts, Josephine Quinn examines the interrelated actions of different …
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Book Review: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett This book has stood the test of time, and after its original publication in 2009 it remains an active project with a current updated website at equalitytrust.org.uk. In presenting rigorous research, the authors Richard Wilkinson and …
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Money, Lies, and God
Book Review: Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart This is an excellent resource full of rich substance in decoding why otherwise reasonable people vote for governments that take a jackhammer to the foundations of their freedoms and very livelihoods. Katherine Stewart documents in laser sharp detail the …
The Tech Coup
Book Review: The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley by Marietje Schaake The lives of most people worldwide are dominated by information technology in an inescapable way—even the poorest people (or perhaps especially the poorest people) need their smart phones to survive. Beyond just the end devices, the back end processing and …
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Book Review: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson Using an old house as a take-off point to address housing, society, developing technology, and science, Bill Bryson guides the reader through each room of an 1851 Victorian parsonage in Norfolk, England—and uses each room as a time machine portal to multiple …
Post Growth: Life after Capitalism
Book Review: Post Growth: Life after Capitalism by Tim Jackson In this book, Tim Jackson provides a compelling explanation of how Capitalism requires an infinite trajectory of growth that is demonstrably impossible, while also providing a tangible alternative road map of how to prosper in a post growth economy. Beyond the established damning critiques of …
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Book review: How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman Through a gripping exposé of actual events and people caught at every point along the array of the critical supply chain dysfunctions that have affected everyone, Peter S. Goodman brings to life for the reader the lives …
White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Book Review: White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy by William J. Barber, II In this book, William Barber provides essential corrective focus on the common cause of both Black and white people and all other categories that separate us as well—exposing the fatal error within conservative and progressive …
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
Book Review: The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society By Joseph E. Stiglitz In this book Joseph Stiglitz effectively shreds the destructive neoliberal economic dogma that has caused such immense suffering for the past 50 years. Siglitz artfully debunks the theories of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek so that they now no longer …
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