Green Reads
Green Reads are book reviews by Green House Think Tank which reflect on work relevant to green politics.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics has a catchy title, appealing diagrams and has attracted some extravagant praise; George Monbiot has called her the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century. Is Monbiot right?
And The Weak Suffer What They Must? - Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability
This book is a book of political economy and a critical history of the world's currency system since 1945. It explores grounds where economics and politics meet.
Limits revisited - A review of the limits to growth report
Four and a half decades after the Club of Rome published its landmark report on Limits to Growth, the study remains critical to understandings of economic prosperity. This new review of the Limits debate has been written for the launch of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on the Limits to Growth
Post Capitalism, A Guide to Our Future
Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism is an ambitious synthesis of a number of existing arguments that collectively aim to show that ‘capitalism is a complex, adaptive system which has reached the limits of its capacity to adapt,’ and which goes on to sketch a Postcapitalist future.
Green economics versus growth economics: The case of Thomas Piketty
Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism is an ambitious synthesis of a number of existing arguments that collectively aim to show that ‘capitalism is a complex, adaptive system which has reached the limits of its capacity to adapt,’ and which goes on to sketch a Postcapitalist future.