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The Economic Challenge of Sustainability   August 2006.

by Richard Douthwaite and Emer Ó Siochrú

This paper, which was written for CORI Justice, gives an overview of Feasta's ideas about economic growth, money systems, peak oil, and the need for a land value tax and for citizen carbon quotas.

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Living in the Cracks: A look at Rural Social Enterprises in Britain and the Czech Republic by Nadia Johanisova

Living-and often thriving-in the cracks between the business world and the state system is an amazing variety of organisations which, according to some economists, theoretically shouldn't exist. This book shows how the struggle of those who have set up and run these organisations to carry their ideals forward has led to lives with more joy, fulfilment and satisfaction than is normally found in commercial life or the civil service. May 2005.

From the second Feasta Review, November 2004:

Why localisation is essential for sustainability

by Richard Douthwaite. The global economy has an in-built tendency to increase inequality. It is also inherently unreliable and the monoculture it creates puts excessive pressures on the environment. We should therefore attempt both to change the way it works and to build local alternatives to it.

Just Change

by Stan Thekaekara. 'Just Change' is a novel cooperative structure linking producers, consumers and investors across the world as an alternative to leaving their relationships to be governed by market forces.

Globalisation: Who benefits?

Stan Thekaekara refutes the claim that globalisation brings about a redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. It doesn't and it won't. Globalisation, like colonisation, is about economic growth, not equity or justice.

The 2002 Feasta Lecture by Stan Thekaekara

PEOPLE FIRST: Justice in a global economy
Stan Thekaekara's approach to economics has been heavily influenced by the tribal people of the Nilgiri Hills in Southern India with whom he and his wife Mari have worked for the last 20 years. As a result, he questions a lot of the basic building blocks of western thought, such as the right to own land and the purpose of work.

On productivity

by Nadia Johanisova. A Socratic dialogue between a Buddhist Lama and a mainstream economist.

Book review: From economic aristocracy to economic democracy

Adrian MacFhearraigh and Catherine Ansbro review The Divine Right Of Capital by Marjorie Kelly

Book review: Transforming 'top-down' corporations into democratic networks

Patrick Mangan and Anne Burke review A New Way To Govern by Shaun Turnbull

Book review: How ideas spread and develop

John Jopling reviews Enabling Innovation by Boru Douthwaite

Book review: Let's use Gandhian principles to select which economic tools to apply

Frank Rotering reviews Inclusive Economics by Narendar Pani

Book review: Corporations and America's Founding Fathers

James Bruges reviews Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann

Book review: Preserving the the planet means scrapping capitalism

Derek Wall reviews The Enemy Of Nature by Joel Kovel

Book review: A shopping list of solutions, but none nearly radical enough

Gillies MacBain reviews Eco-Economy by Lester R Brown, and The New Economy of Nature by Gretchen C Daily and Katherine Ellison

From Short Circuit:

Chapter Four: Banking On Ourselves

High interest rates are not the only way people can get a healthy return on their savings. Organisations which recycle savings locally provide social dividends as well.

From the first Feasta Review, June 2001:

Rights of money versus rights of living persons

David Korten argues that property rights should be limited by law to prevent those who have more than enough using them to deny others their right to the means of making a livelihood. Moreover, companies should be banned from political activities of any kind because political rights reside only in real people.

Book review: Misleading us or deluding themselves?

Malcolm Slesser reviews Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory B Lovins and L.Hunter Lovins

Panel: Amory Lovins In His Own Words

Book review: Three tiger sightings, but its stripes are in dispute

Peadar Kirby reviews The Making of the Celtic Tiger: The Inside Story of Ireland's Boom Economy by Ray Mac Sharry and Padraic White, The Celtic Tiger: Ireland's Continuing Economic Miracle by Paul Sweeney, and Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model by Denis O'Hearn

Book review: Making money, yet growing poor

David O'Kelly reviews The Post-Corporate World - Life After Capitalism by David Korten

Book review: Restraining the four horsemen

Frances Hutchinson reviews The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism In The Twenty-First Century by Susan George

Book review: Here's hoping the corporate reformers will be left behind

Nadia Johanisova reviews Vanishing Borders by Hilary French

Book review: The world according to George Soros

David Korten reviews Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism by George Soros