The Case for Degrowth
By: Giorgos Kallis
3.84
Format: 140 pages, ebook
The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies.…
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
3. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- politics
- economics
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4. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
By: Jason Hickel
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more
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5. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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6. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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7. Envisioning Real Utopias
By: Erik Olin Wright
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, hav… read more
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8. Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction
By: Mark Maslin
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction is an informative, up to date discussion about the predic… read more
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9. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
10. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
11. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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- climate change
- politics
- environment
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
12. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
13. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
14. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
15. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
16. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- ecology
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
17. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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- climate change
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18. This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond
By: Rupert Read
4.01
Format: 104 pages, ebook
Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. Th… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
19. Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
By: Bill McGuire
4.31
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse ent… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
20. Post Growth: Life After Capitalism
By: Tim Jackson
3.77
Format: 256 pages, ebook
'Empowering and elegiac'Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now'Utterly inspiring'Caroline Lucas, M… read more
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21. The Case for Degrowth
By: Giorgos Kallis
3.84
Format: 140 pages, ebook
The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies.… read more
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- environment
