Book Reviews

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – review (part two: social controls through digital infrastructures have bio-physical limits)

"Shoshana Zuboff has written a huge book packed full of detail and insight," writes Brian Davey. "Nevertheless it is an incomplete picture because it lacks a description of the bio-physical dimensions of surveillance capitalism and how these additional dimensions are intertwined with the limits to economic growth."

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff: review (part one)

Brian Davey writes that Zuboff's book makes the internet of things seem "like living in an automated psychiatric ward in which it is not the psychiatric staff who know what is best for you but a variety of algorithms of ideal behaviour".

Towards Zero Waste by Feidhlim Harty: review

Caroline Whyte finds this book by Feidhlim Harty to be very accessible and full of useful information.

The Economics of Arrival: Review

In the fifth part of her Enough is Plenty blog series, Anne Ryan suggests that the "clarity and verve" of this book's writing could give it an audience "beyond the marginalised community of those who currently promote sufficiency and related systems".

Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing

"Anyone looking for an excellent description of the damaging effects of austerity will find it in this book. Anyone looking for an analysis of the ecological crisis and what to do about may be disappointed," writes Brian Davey.

Summer Reading Recommendation: The Case for Carbon Dividends

Professor James K. Boyce's book explains why capping total global carbon emissions would put us on a path to fixing our enormous emissions problem, rather than just providing a tiny bandaid as offsets do. Review by Mike Sandler.

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