Inspirational readings

The LiLi project and team exist because we have been and continue to be inspired from many directions by articles, books, projects and people. This page includes some of them.

Economics for a finite planet

Kate Raworth (2017) Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21^st century economist. Random House Business

Peter A. Victor (2008) Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster. Edward Elgar

Tim Jackson (2017) Prosperity Without Growth (2^nd Ed). Routledge

Joan Martinez-Alier (2003) The Environmentalism of the Poor. Edward Elgar

Clive Spash (Ed) (2017) Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics. Routledge

Rob Dietz & Dan O’Neill (2013) Enough is enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources. Routledge

Milena Buchs & Max Koch (2017) Postgrowth and Wellbeing: Challenges to Sustainable Welfare. Palgrave

Ian Gough (2017) Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing. Edward Elgar

Arild Vatn (2015) Environmental Governance: Institutions, Policies and Actions. Edward Elgar

Giorgos Kallis (2012). The Economics of Degrowth, Ecological Economics 84: 172-180

John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark & Richard York (2010) The Ecological Rift. Monthly Review Press

Ideas for changing the world

Giacamo D’Alisa, Frederico Demaria & Giorgos Kallis (2015) Degrowth: a Vocabulary for a New Era. Abingdon

Donella Meadows (2008) Thinking in Systems. A Primer. Earthscan

Naomi Klein (2014) This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the climate. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Amartya Sen (2000) Development as Freedom. Anchor Books

Martha Nussbaum (2011) Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Belknap

Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway (2013). The collapse of western civilization. Daedalus 142(1), 40-58

Elinor Ostrom (1990) Governing the Commons. Cambridge University Press

Guy Standing (2017) Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen. Pelican

Anna Coote & Jane Franklin (eds.) (2013) Time on Our Side: Why we all need a shorter working week. Nef

Jason Moore (2015) Capitalism in the Web of Life. Verso

Paolo Freire (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum

Oldies but “greaties”

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971) The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Harvard University Press

Murray Bookchin (1982/2005) The Ecology of Freedom. The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy. Cheshire Books

Herman Daly (1973) Toward a Steady-State Economy. W.H. Freeman & Co Ltd

Herman Daly (1997) Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Beacon Press

Ernst F. Schumacher (1973) Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. Blond and Briggs

Henry David Thoreau (1854) Walden

K. William Kapp (1961) Towards a Science of Man in Society. Martinus Nijhoff

Kenneth E. Boulding (1966) The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth

History of ideas in economics

Robert Heilbroner (1953) The Worldly Philosophers: the Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

Karl Polanyi. (1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Beacon Press

Dimitris Milonakis & Ben Fine (2008) From Political Economy to Economics. Routledge

Ha-Joon Chang (2014). Economics: The User's Guide. Pelican

Clive Spash (1999) The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics. Environmental Values 8, 413-435

Inge Røpke (2004) The early history of modern ecological economics. Ecological Economics 50, 293-314

Inge Røpke (2005). Trends in the development of ecological economics. Ecological Economics 55, 262-290