A slightly edited version borrowed from the United States Society for Ecological Economics http://www.ussee.org/
General Books about Ecological and Alternative Economics
- The Progress Illusion, by Jon Erickson
- Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, by EF Schumacher
- What Then Must We Do? by Gar Alperovitz
- Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene, Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman, eds.
- Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, by Rob Dietz, Dan O’Neill, and Herman Daly
- Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, by Elinor Ostrom
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist, Kate Raworth
- Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution, by Brian Czech
- Best of The Daly News: Selected Essays from the Leading Blog in Steady State Economics, by Brian Czech
- Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All, by Brian Czech
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, by Herman Daly
- Steady-State Economics, 2nd edition, by Herman Daly
- Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill
- The Great Disruption, by Paul Gilding
- Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, by Tim Jackson
Bio-Physical Limitations
- The Myth of Progress, by Tom Wessells
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, by Herman Daly
- Collapse, by Jared Diamond
- Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature, by Carl McDaniel and John Gowdy
- Planetary Economics, by Michael Grubb
Websites
- Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET): http://ineteconomics.org/
- New Economics Foundation: http://www.neweconomics.org
- New Economy Coalition: http://neweconomy.net/
- Schumacher Center for New Economics: http://www.centerforneweconomics.org/
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW): eswglobal.org
- Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy (CASSE): http://steadystate.org/
- International Society for Ecological Economics: http://www.isecoeco.org/
- Population Connection: https://www.populationconnection.org/
Readings recommended by Jon Erickson
- Jason Hickel: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/jul/15/clean-energy-wont-save-us-economic-system-can
- George Monbiot: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/26/economic-growth-fossil-fuels-habit-oil-industry
- Jason Hickel and Giorgos Kallis: Is Green Growth Possible: https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964
- Giorgios Kallis: Radical Dematerialization and Degrowth: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2016.0383
- Can we Have Prosperity Without Growth? A very recent article in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth.
- Why a Wave of Economists are Championing Slow Economic Growth http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/12/economists-slow-economic-growth (NPR)
More information about Jon Erickson can be found at:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon David_Erickson (Wikipedia)
- https://jonderickson.org/ (his website)
- https://jonderickson.org/entrepreneur/film/ (his documentary films)
