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BlackHawke on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

BlackHawke — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:21:26 +0000

"The Water Thief" by Nicholas Lamar Soutter.

It's about corporations taking over the world, buying and selling people, and eventually over leveraging themselves (in land, or course.... Sound Familiar?) and facing a complete obliteration of the world economy to send us all back to the stone age.

Cbh on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

Cbh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:05:01 +0000

I heard Jeffrey Sachs talk about his latest book, The Price Of Civilization, and I would recommend that too.
(in the talk, he said his advice to the occupy movement would be:
Stay on message
Discipline
Focus)

TLAJoanne on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

TLAJoanne — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:10:20 +0000

This topic was so important to me that I compiled resources from a multitude of sources and merged them into a mini-book:

Economic Resilience: What We Can Do in Our Local Communities
can be read free online http://economicresilience.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html

Jim on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

Jim — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:59:08 +0000

"World 5.0 - Healing Ourselves, Our Earth and Our Life Together" is my book and my top choice. It describes how we need a new cultural operating system based on principles like peace and love instead of the current one built on the power of money and designed to enrich the 1%. Here's a link to the website...
http://world5.org

Please contact me for a free download of the PDF of the book, or you can order it on the site. peace and love, jim.

Claudette on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

Claudette — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:43:42 +0000

This gets down to the heart of the economic crisis and everything else. The Lost Playground by Patricia Coombs is a simple and prophetic children's story about an authentic being in an inauthentic world. Explores herd mentality, consumerism, tolerance, uniqueness, and the value of character in a personality-robbing environment.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/86443598/the-lost-playground-a-magical-story-of

Chris Alford on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

Chris Alford — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:32:31 +0000

Finished Extreme Money now and honestly can't recommend this book enough! The summary from amazon:

"The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook money—a lubricant of society and human well-being—for an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of how this happened—and, in so doing, it tells the story of the modern world.

Bestselling author Satyajit Das draws on 33 years of personal experience at the heart of modern global finance to narrate this story. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that have generated increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, Ponzi prosperity, sophistication, and wealth—while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside the financial industry. Das shows how “extreme money” has become ever more unreal; how “voodoo banking” continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of “Masters of the Universe” has come to dominate the world.

Extreme Money is about:
The new financial fundamentalism: false gods, false prophets - Faith in money, faith in risk, faith in shadows
The cult of risk and the growth engine that isn’t - How financial engineering replaced real engineering and illusions replaced reality
Financial alchemy and the “Doomsday Debt Machine”- The rise of the global financial machine we cannot escape
The new global oligarchy—and the nihilistic games they play - Too smart, too fast, too greedy, too self-absorbed—and far too dangerous"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extreme-Money-Masters-Universe-Financial/dp/0273723979/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324664876&sr=1-1

clintoncallahan on "Beware The Psychopath, My Son..."

clintoncallahan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:34:50 +0000

Dear Kelly, Thank you for this link. I was not aware of it. I have been studying initiation into adulthood as practiced by every indigenous culture that I've found. Books such as Of Water and Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Somé, Dark Nature by Lyall Watson, and Long Life Honey In The Heart by Martín Prechtel. These researchers found that sometimes 10% of the young people engaging initiation were lost (died) during the year-long procedures. These were true tests and empowerment of human-ness, and, I suspect, assured that none of the 1-2% psychopaths made it into positions of power or responsibility in the tribe. At the beginnings of patriarchy some 6000 years ago, as heirarchies were forming and psychopaths worked their way up the ladders, I suspect it was the psychopaths who eliminated authentic initiations from the culture to avoid being found out. We are now paying the high price of having un-initiated people in positions of power, children shooting depleted-uranium weapons at each other for profit, and no adults around to take their dangerous toys away and say, "No." "Stop it." Until now. Until people such as yourself rescind the franchise, take back your vote, choose conscious suffering and occupy everything. Thank you. Clinton

tmrykalo on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

tmrykalo — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:05:57 +0000

Without having read through all previous posts:

*Sustainable Capitalism by John Ikerd
*Freefall by Joseph Stiglitz
*The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
*Green Economics: An Introduction To Theory, Policy and Practice by Molly Scott Cato
*The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report- the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (a starting point only)

gliftor on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

gliftor — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:59:04 +0000

I'm recommending "Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us" by John Quiggin. Despite the title and cover, this is a serious book by an econ professor. It describes the evolution of some of the key ideas of neoclassical economics, and shows how they have been proven false by the economic crisis to which they've contributed. These ideas still exist as "zombies" in opinion articles and the statements of politicians because no new consensus has come along to replace them. If we're looking at creating a new consensus, we ought to be able to see through the pseudosophisticated terminology used by right-wing writers on economic issues: the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, real business cycles, Ricardian equivalence, general equilibrium models, and blah blah blah. If nothing else, this book will help you understand the ideas that Paul Krugman attacks in many of his "wonkish" NYT blog posts.

Kelly523 on "***Call for TOP 5 "Economic Crisis" Books"

Kelly523 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:32:50 +0000

"The New Imperialism" by David Harvey (Oxford University Press, 2003)