This collection provides ideas (in the form of books, journals, podcasts, and other sources), organizations, and even entertaining media that can help you understand the economics of sustainability, the degrowth movement, and the transition away from capitalism and consumerism.
Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Consumerist Movies
Books
- The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971) by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegan
- The Limits to Growth (1972) by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrans
- Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1973) by E.F. Schumacher
- Steady-State Economics (1977 and 1991) by Herman Daly
- Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (1982) by William Catton
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (1996) by Herman Daly
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (1997) by Herman Daly
- A Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies (2001) by Howard Odum and Elisabeth Odum
- Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All (2002) by Brian Czech
- Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle (2007) by David Wann
- Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster (2008 and 2019) by Peter Victor
- Farewell to Growth (2009) by Serge Latouche
- The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (2011) by Richard Heinberg
- Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (2011 and 2016) by Tim Jackson
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