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Books on Ecological Economics

Beyond the Limits by Donnella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers
Applies computer modeling techniques to population and economic growth scenarios and concludes that the global industrial system has already overshot some of the earth's vital ecological limits.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
Outlines the environmentally destructive aspects of many current business practices, but offers the vision of businesses adopting new practices to promote environmental restoration.
Filters Against Folly by Garrett Hardin
Offers more clear thinking by Garrett Hardin about difficult environmental issues.
For the Common Good by Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Outlines a new, sustainable economics based upon community.
Free Market Environmentalism by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal
Develops a property rights paradigm for managing resources.
Green Production by Enrique Leff
Addresses the relationship of production to development and the environment.
Home Economics by Wendell Berry
A clearly reasoned, strongly worded indictment of our present economic system and the foolish squandering of resources that it fosters.
Living within Limits by Garrett Hardin
Renowned biologist, ecological philosopher, and student of human population control, Garrett Hardin offers the finest summation of his work to date.
Managing the Commons edited by Garrett Hardin and John Baden
Explores the implications of Garrett Hardin's classic essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons"
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
Asks us to look behind the basic assumptions of modern economics.
Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs
Addresses the moral values that underpin public life.
Whose Common Future? Reclaiming the Commons by The Ecologist Magazine
Asserts that governments and big business erode commons and destroy the cultures commons support.
The Nature of Economies
Jacobs, Jane, Vintage Books USA, 2001, Paper, $12.00
The Political Economy of Participatory Economics
Albert, Michael, Princeton University Press, 1991, Paper, $17.00
The Politics of Microcredit: Global Governance and Poverty Reduction
Weber, Heloise, Pluto Press (UK), 2002, Paper, $22.50
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
Korten, David C., Kumarian Press, 2000, Paper, $19.95
Introduction to Ecological Economics
Costanza, Robert, St. Lucie Press, 1997, Paper, $64.95
Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival
Prugh, Thomas, CRC Press, 1999, Paper, $59.95
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Hawken, Paul, Back Bay Books, 2000, Paper, $17.95
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
Daly, Herman E., Beacon Press, 1997, Paper, $18.00
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth
Brown, Lester R., W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, Paper, $15.95
Ecological Economics: A Political Economics Approach to Environment and Development
Soderbaum, Peter, Earthscan Publications, 2000, Paper, $27.50
Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability
Costanza, Robert, Columbia University Press, 1992, Paper, $41.00
Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Hawken, Paul, HarperBusiness, 1994, Paper, $16.95
Ecomanagement: The Elmwood Guide to Ecological Auditing and Sustainable Business
Callenbach, Ernest, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1993, Paper, $27.95
Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction
Turner, R. Kerry, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, Paper, $21.95
False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism
Gray, John, New Press, 2000, Paper, $14.95
Field Guide to the Global Economy
Anderson, Sarah, New Press, 2000, Paper, $16.95
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Daly, Herman E., Beacon Press, 1994, Paper, $20.00
Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics
Costanza, Robert, Island Press, 1996, Paper, $40.00
Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulation Speculative Capital Markets
Bello, Walden, Zed Books Ltd., 2000, Paper, $25.00
God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future
Ayres, Ed, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000, Paper, $14.95
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
Shuman, Michael H., Routledge, 2000, Paper, $18.95
Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century
Albert, Michael, South End Press, 1990, Paper, $16.00
MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to American Freedom
Clarke, Tony, Stoddart, 1998, Paper, $9.95
Managing the Commons
Baden, John A., Indiana University Press, 1998, Paper, $17.95
Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy
Brown, Lester R., W. W. Norton & Company, 1991, Paper, $8.95
Sharing Nature's Interest: Using Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
Chambers, Nicky, Stylus Publishing, 2001, Paper, $24.00
Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Unstable World
Douthwaite, Richard, Green Books, 1998, Paper, $21.95
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All
Czech, Brian, University of California Press, 2000, Paper, $40.00
Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered, 25 Years Later...with Commentaries
Schumacher, E. F., Hartley & Marks Publishers, 1999, Paper, $19.95
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
Jacobs, Jane, Vintage Books USA, 1994, Paper, $13.00
The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience
Rifkin, Jeremy, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2001, Paper, $13.95
The Breakdown of Nations
Kohr, Leopold, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001, Paper, $14.95
The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
Kelly, Marjorie, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001, Paper, $24.95
The Earth Policy Reader
Brown, Lester R., W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, Paper, $15.95
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
Perelman, Michael, Duke University Press, 2000, Paper, $22.95
The State of the World Atlas
Smith, Dan, Penguin Books, 1999, Paper, $17.95
The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America
Heintz, James, New Press, 2000, Paper, $16.95
The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us (Pbk)
Baskin, Yvonne, Shearwater Books, 1998, Paper, $17.95
The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth
Pimm, Stuart L., McGraw-Hill Trade, 2001, Paper, $24.95
Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System
McMurtry, John, Kumarian Press, 1998, Paper, $24.95
Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics
Daly, Herman E., MIT Press, 1992, Paper, $24.95
Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (2002)
Worldwatch Institute, , W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, Paper, $14.95
Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom
Henwood, Doug, Verso, 1998, Paper, $20.00
When Corporations Rule the World
Korten, David C., Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001, Paper, $15.95

 

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