Selected Readings

General Readings

French, Hilary. Vanishing Borders. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Paehlke, Robert C. Democracy’s Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity and the Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Visions for a Sustainable Future

Albert, M., Cagan, L., Chomsky, N., Hahnel, R., King, M., Sargent, L., and Sklar, H. Liberating Theory, South End Press, Boston, 1986

Albert, M. and Hahnel, R. Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century, South End Press, Boston, 1991

Ekins, Paul. “The Sustainable Consumer Society: A Contradiction in Terms?” International Environmental Affairs 3.4 (1991): 243-258.

Goodland, Robert, H. Daly and S. El Serafy (eds.). Population, Technology and Lifestyle: The Transition to Sustainability. Washington: Island Press, 1992.

Odum, Howard and E. Odum. A Prosperous Way Down. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2001.

Schor, Juliet and B. Taylor. Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-First Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.

Speth, James. Red Sky at Morning. New Haven: The Yale Univesity Press, 2004.

Williamson, T. What Comes Next? National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, Washington, D.C., 1997

Well-Being and Happiness

Diener, E. and C. Diener. “The Wealth of Nations revisited: Income and the quality of life,” Social Indicators Research 36 (1995): 275-286.

Diener, E. and R. E. Lucas. “Personality and Subjective Well-being.” In D. Kahneman, E. Diener and N. Schwartz, (eds.). Understanding Well-being: Scientific Perspectives on Enjoyment and Suffering. New York: Russell Sage, 1998.

Kasser, Tim. The High Price of Materialism. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.

Lane, R.E. The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000

Smil,V. Energy at the Crossroads, MIT Press, Boston, 2004: pp. 97-105

Supportive Public Policies

Anielski, Mark. “Fertile Obfuscation: Making money whilst eroding living capital.” Presented at 34^th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, June 2-4, 2000: Vancouver, http://www.pembina.org/pdf/publications/fertile.pdf.

Cohen, Joel. How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.