Patrick Grant Instagram – For the past half century our economy and big business have been run solely for profit, with people a secondary consideration, and the planet no consideration at all. It’s time to change that, to reshape our economy putting people and planet first, to support and create businesses that do good for all of us, not just a wealthy few.
These are some of the books I read whilst researching my book LESS, which is a discussion about consumption, work, quality, and how they shape our society and our happiness.
The stack, piled in no particular order:
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville
The Craftsman by Richard Sennet
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Working by Studs Terkel
The Limits to Growth by Meadows, Meadows, Randers & Behrens
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham
Capital by Karl Marx
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Free And Equal by Daniel Chandler
Fabric by Victoria Finlay
Fewer Better Things by Glen Adamson
Clothing A Global History by Robert Ross
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
Earth Logic by Kate Fletcher & Mathilda Tham
Land of Desire by William Leach
An Economists Lessons on Happiness by Richard Easterlin
Fibershed by Rebecca Burgess
Collision Course by Kerryn Higgs
Not in the photo:
Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher
Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert
Made In England by Dorothy Hartley
The Case for Working With Your Hands by Matthew Crawford
The Birth of a Consumer Society by Neil McKendrick
The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America by Carole Shammas | Posted on 09/Jun/2024 15:39:22
