‘Small is Beautiful – A Study of Economics as if People Mattered’
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Some books are so well observed, so prescient, that even their supporters are seemingly overwhelmed by their material implications, and turn away from the truths they annunciate: ‘Small is Beautiful’ is such an example.
‘A Blueprint for Survival’
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
What this book forces us to ask is that, if ‘contemporary issues’ were accurately described and diagnosed fifty years ago, why has no progress been made since then?
‘The Shock Doctrine’ Naomi Klein (2007)
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
A landmark book which argues neoliberal free market policies have arisen as a deliberate strategy of ‘shock therapy’, exploiting national crises to enact questionable policies while citizens are too distracted to resist effectively.
Why the lights are going out on Britain’s asset-stripped nation
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Electricity supply, one of the systemic flaws in the UK’s failing economy, looks increasingly like it could fracture this Winter – and without accepting why that model is broken that cannot be avoided.
Stone Age Economics
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
By examining the lives of ancient peoples, Stone Age Economics questions the Western paradigm of ‘economic progress’ because, in terms of the individual, things may not have improved so radically after all.
The Great Coffee Economy Con
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Coffee, the addictive obsession of the affluent class, can tell us more about modern society than just retail trends; it is an indicator for how the modern neoliberal system operates, and its current shift toward new economic extremes.
Electric Shock! Technological Complexity and the Modern Lifestyle
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
A certain level of technology certainly improves human lifestyle; but beyond a certain point technology creates a ‘trap’ – where growing complexity creates a higher risk to our well-being should those systems suddenly fail.
‘Food for Free’
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
The 1970s surge in ecological awareness saw many books published on our relationship with the natural world. ‘Food for Free’, by Richard Mabey, was published fifty years ago in 1972.