Environmental Research Foundation
September 28, 2005

A QUIRKY BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ECONOMIC PROBLEMS & SOME SOLUTIONS

Draft 2 (September 28, 2005)

By Peter Montague (peter@rachel.org)

Albert, Michael, and Robin Hahnel. Looking Forward;
Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century. Boston:
South End Press, 1991. ISBN 0-89608-405-1.

Albert, Michael.  Parecon; Life After Capitalism. N.Y.: Verso,
2003. ISBN 1-85984-698-X.

Alperovitz, Gar. America Beyond Capitalism; Reclaiming Our
Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons,
2005). ISBN 0-471-66730-7.  Everyone should read this book.

Ashworth, William. The Economy of Nature; Rethinking the
Connections Between Ecology and Economics. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1995. ISBN 0-395-71817-1.

Berberoglu, Berch. The Legacy of Empire; Economic Decline and
Class Polarization in the United States. N.Y.: Praeger, 1992.
ISBN 0-275-93792-5.

Bernstein, Michael A., and David E. Adler. Understanding
American Economic Decline. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-45679-7.

Bowles, Samuel, David M. Gordon, and Thomas E. Weisskopf.
Beyond the Wasteland; A Democratic Economics for the year 2000.
Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 1990. ISBN 0-87332-645-8.

Bowles, Samuel, David M. Gordon, and Thomas E. Weisskopf.
Beyond the Wasteland; A Democratic Alternative to Economic
Decline. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1984. ISBN
0-385-18346-1.

Brecher, Jeremy, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith. Globalization
from Below; The Power of Solidarity. Cambridge, Mass.: South
End Press, 2000. ISBN 0-89608-622-4.

Brown, Lester R. Eco-Economy; Building an Economy for the
Earth. N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32193-2.

Cipolla, Carlo M. The Economic Decline of Empires. London:
Metheun, 1970. SBN 416 18210 0

Cohen, Richard and Peter A. Wilson. Superpowers in Economic
Decline; U.S. Strategy in the Transcentury Era. N.Y.: Taylor
and Francis, 1990. ISBN 0-8448-1625-6.

Collins, Chuck, and Felice Yeskel. Economic Apartheid in
America; A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity. New
York: The New Press, 2000. ISBN 1-56584-594-3. Corrections and
updates can be found here.

Costanza, Robert, and others. An Introduction to Ecological
Economics. Boca Raton, Fla.: St. Lucie Press, 1997. ISBN
1-884015-72-7.

Costanza, Robert, and others. Getting Down to Earth; Practical
Applications of Ecological Economics. Washington, D.C.: Island
Press, 1996. ISBN 1-55963-503-7.

Czech, Brian.  Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train; Errant
Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All.
Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN
0-520-22514-7.

Daly, Herman E., and Joshua Farley. Ecological Economics;
Principles and Applications. Washington, D.C.: Island Press,
2004. ISBN 1-55963-312-3.

Daly, Herman E. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable
Development. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8070-4708-2.

Dasgupta, Partha. An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution.
Oxford: Clareodon Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-828835-2.

Douthwaite, Richard.  Short Circuit; Strengthening Local
Economics for Security in an Unstable World. Dublin: Lilliput
Press, 1996. ISBN 1 874675 60 0.

Douthwaite, Richard.  The Growth Illusion; How Economic Growth
has Enriched the few, Impoverished the Many, and Endangered the
Planet; Revised and Updated Edition. N.Y.: New Society
Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0-86571-396-0.

Dowd, Douglas. Against the Conventional Wisdom; A Primer for
Current Economic Controversies and Proposals. N.Y.:
HarperCollins, 1997. ISBN 0-8133-2796-2.

Dowd, Douglas. Capitalism and Its Economics; A Critical
History. London: Pluto Press, 2000. ISBN 0 7453 1643 3.

Fodor, Eben. Bigger Not Better; How to Take Control of Urban
Growth and Improve Your Community. Gabriola Island, B.C.,
Canada: New Society Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0-86571-386-3.

Foster, John Bellamy.  Ecology Against Capitalism. N.Y.:
Monthly Review Press, 2002. ISBN 1-58367-056-4.

Galbraith, John Kenneth.  The Affluent Society. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1958. ISBN 0-395-92500-2.

Galbraith, John Kenneth.  The New Industrial State. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1967.

Gates, Jeff.  Democracy at Risk; Rescuing Main Street from Wall
Street. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2001. ISBN 0-7382-0483-8.

Gowdy, John, ed. Limited Wants, Unlimited Means; A Reader in
Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment. Washington,
D.C.: Island Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55963-355-X.

Gray, John. False Dawn; The Delusions of Global Capitalism. New York:
New Press, 1998. ISBN 1-56584-592-7.

Heilbroner, Robert L, and James K. Galbraith.  The Economic
Problem. Ninth Edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall,
1990. ISBN 0-13-225194-9.

Heilbroner, Robert L. (with Araron Singer). The Economic
Transformation of America. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch,
1977. ISBN 0-15-518800-3.

Hollander, Jack M. The Real Environmental Crisis; Why Poverty,
Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy. Berkeley,
Calif.: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN
0-520-24328-5.

Jacobs, Michael.  The Green Economy; Environment, Sustainable
Development, and the Politics of the Future. Vancouver, B.C.,
Canada: UBC Press, 1993. ISBN 0-7748-0474-2.

Judis, John B. The Folly of Empire; What George Bush Could
Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (N.Y.:
Scribner, 2004. ISBN 0-7432-6127-5.

Kelly, Marjorie. The Divine Right of Capital; Dethroning the
Corporate Aristocracy. San Francisco: Berrett-Kohler, 2001.
ISBN 1-57675-125-2.

Kelso, Louis O., and Mortimer J. Adler. The Capitalist
Manifesto. N.Y.: Random House, 1958. Library of Congress
catalog # 58-5268.

Kennedy, Paul.  Rise and Fall of Great Powers; Economic Change
and Military Conflict, 1500 to 2000. N.Y.: Random House, 1987.
ISBN 0-679-72019-7.

Krimerman, Len, and Frank Lindenfeld. When Workers Decide;
Workplace Democracy Takes Root in North America. Philadelphia,
Pa.: ISBN 0-86571-201-8.

Krugman, Paul.  The Great Unraveling; Losing Our Way in the New
Century. N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 2003. ISBN 0-393-05850-6.

Krugman, Paul. The Return of Depression Economics. N.Y.: W.W.
Norton, 1998. ISBN 0-393-04839-X.

Lakachman, Robert, and Borin Van Loon. Capitalism for
Beginners. N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Makhijani, Arjun. Manifesto for Global Democracy; Two Essays on
Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom. NY: Apex Press, 2004.
ISBN 1-891843-21-4.

Mardick, Jeffrey. The End of Affluence; The Causes and
Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma. N.Y.: Random House,
1995. ISBN 0-679-43623-5.

Olson, Mancur. The Rise and Decline of Nations. New Haven,
Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-300-03079-7.

Phillips, Kevin. Arrogant Capital; Washington, Wall Street, and
the Frustration of American Politics. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co., 1994. ISBN 0-316-70618-3.

Robertson, James. Future Wealth; a New Economics for the 21st
Century. N.Y.: The Bootstrap Press, 1990. ISBN 0-942850-25-4.

Sahlins, Marshall. Stone Age Economics. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine
de Gruyter, 1972. ISBN 0-202-01099-6.

Schumacher, E.F.  Small is Beautiful; Economics as if People
Mattered. London: Blond & Briggs, 1973. ISBN 0-06-091630-3.

Schweichart, David. After Capitalism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002. ISBN 0-7425-1300-9.

Schweichart, David. Against Capitalism. NY: Harper-Collins,
1996. ISBN 0-8133-3113-7.

Shuman, Michael H.  Going Local; Creating Self-Reliant
Communities in a Global Age. N.Y.: Free Press, 1998. ISBN
0-684-83012-4.  Everyone should read this book.

Shutt, Harry. A New Democracy; Alternatives to a Bankrupt World
Order. London: Zed Books, 2001. ISBN 1 85649 974.

Shutt, Harry. The Decline of Capitalism; Can a Self-Regulated
Profits System Survive? London: Zed Books, 2005. ISBN 1 84277
401 8.

Shutt, Harry. The Trouble with Capitalism; An Enquiry into the
Causes of Global Economic Failure. London: Zed Books, 1998.
ISBN 1-85649-566-3.

Swinney, Dan. Building the Bridge to the High Road; Expanding
Participation and Democracy in the Economy to Build Sustainable
Communities. Chicago: Center for Labor and Community Research, 1998,
2000. Available free in PDF format here and in HTML format here;
also available in Spanish and Portuguese.

Tuchman, Barbara W. The March of Folly; From Troy to Vietnam.
N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 1984. ISBN 0-345-30823-9.

Vidal, Gore. The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
Berkeley, Calif: Odonian Press, 1992. ISBN 1-878825-00-3.