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    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology

    Climate Shock

    Climate Shock

    Authors: Gernot Wagner, Martin L. Weitzman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Following on the Stern report, this powerfully eloquent and informative book (50 pages of notes and 30 of bibliography) describes the economic consequences of a…… Read More »
    Saving Capitalism

    Saving Capitalism

    Author: Robert Reich
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    This book follows up the author's earlier Supercapitalism, in which he discusses the dangerous undermining of democracy by capitalist elites. The situation has become more…… Read More »
    Grass-Fed Nation

    Grass-Fed Nation

    Author: Graham Harvey
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Graham Harvey is a journalist who is also one of the co-founders of the Oxford Real Farming Conference on low input, ecological agriculture. As the…… Read More »
    From MAD to Madness

    From MAD to Madness

    Authors: Diana Johnstone, Paul Johnstone
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    This is an unusual as well as powerful book, based on 20 years' experience of the upper echelons of US intelligence from the late 40s…… Read More »
    TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION

    TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION

    Author: Graham Leicester
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    This inspiring book was launched in Edinburgh in April at a reception to mark the 15th anniversary of the International Futures Forum (www.internationalfuturesforum.com) and it…… Read More »
    FUTURE FIT

    FUTURE FIT

    Author: Giles Hutchins
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    I met Giles at a conference of the Laszlo Institute in Italy in July, and realised that I had reviewed his earlier book The Illusion…… Read More »
    Small Arcs of Larger Circles

    Small Arcs of Larger Circles

    Author: Nora Bateson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Readers of this Review will probably be most familiar with the work of Gregory Bateson, but may not be aware that his father William was…… Read More »
    COMMUNICATION POWER

    COMMUNICATION POWER

    Author: Manuel Castells
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Building on his previous work on the network society, Manuel Castells distils the implications of new communications platforms in relation to the exercise of power…… Read More »
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    Authors: Helen Philbrick, Richard B. Gregg
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    The first version of this book came out as early as 1943 and is based on the observation that certain plants seem to affect others…… Read More »
    Men Without Work

    Men Without Work

    Author: Nicholas Eberstadt
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    Subtitled 'America's invisible crisis', this book describes the rise in the number of men in the US who are out of work and not seeking…… Read More »
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