Green Economic Bibliography


This list by no means exhausts the list of important books on green economics or political-economy.  For the sake of brevity and focus, I’ve selected these from among my favourites.  See my book for a more comprehensive bibliography.

        ---B.M.

 

  • Douthwaite, Richard, Short-Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Unstable World, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1996

 

  • Benholt-Thomson, Veronika, and Maria Mies, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy, London/NY: Zed Books, 1999

 

  • Vaughan, Genevieve, For-Giving: a Feminist Critique of Exchange , Austin Texas: Plain View Press, 1997

 

  • Hayden, Anders, Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work, Consumption and Ecology, Toronto: Between the Lines, 1999

 

  • Hawken, Paul, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability , New York: Harper Business, 1993

 

  • Roberts, Wayne and Susan Brandum, Get a Life! How to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and Save the world while you're at it , Toronto: Get a Life Publishers, 1995

 

  • Henderson, Hazel,   Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy, West Hartford CT: Kumarian Press, 1999

 

  • Korten, David, The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism , Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999

 

  • Robertson, James, Future Work: Jobs, Self-Employment and Leisure After the Industrial Age , Aldershot, Hants, England: Gower Publishing, 1985

 

  • Sachs, Wolfgang, Reinhard Loske, and Manfred Linz, and other researchers of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Greening the North: A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity , London: Zed Books, 1998.

 

  • Schumacher, E.F., Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered , London: Abacus Press, 1974

 

  • Murray, Robin, Creating Wealth From Waste, London: Demos, 1999

 

  • Pauli, Gunter, Upsizing: the road to zero emissions, more jobs, more income, no pollution , Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 1998

 

  • Alexander, Christopher, The Timeless Way of Building, New York: Oxford University Press, 1979

 

  • Hayden, Delores, Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life , New York: W.W. Norton, 1984

 

  • Hough, Michael, Cities and Natural Process, New York: Routledge, 1995

 

  • Lyle, John Tillman, Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development , New York: John Wiley, 1994

 

  • Mollison, Bill, Permaculture, New York: Island Press, 1990

 

  • Van der Ryn, Sim and Stuart Cowan, Ecological Design , Washington DC: Island Press, 1996

 

  • Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, Gabriola Island BC/Philadelphia: New Society, 1996

 

  • Jackson, Tim, Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life , London/New York: Routledge, 1996

 

  • Greco, Thomas A., New Money for Healthy Communities, Tucson: Thomas A. Greco Publishers, 1994

 

  • Kurtzman, Joel, The Death of Money: How the Electronic Economy Has Destabilized the World's Markets and Created Financial Chaos, New York: Little Brown and Co., 1993

 

  • Friends of the Earth (FOE), Citizens’ Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting, Washington DC: FOE, June 1998

 

  • Harrison, Bennett, Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility , New York: Basic Books, 1994

 

  • Mander, Jerry and Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy—and for a turn to the local, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996


  • Morris, David,  Seeing the Light: Regaining Control of Our Electricity System, Minneapolis/Washington DC: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2001


  • Bacher, John,  Petrotyranny,  Toronto: Science for Peace/Dundern Press,   2000


  • O'Sullivan, Edmund, Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century ,  London/Toronto: Zed/U of Toronto Press: 1999