Edge Debate 52 – Monday 26th November 2012

Building a State of Equilibrium

Reading list

At the debate on the 26th November many speakers referred to various books and papers. Those noted have been listed below. Further suggestions to [email protected]

Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth; for a Finite Planet, Earthscan, 2009 (Published originally as Prosperity without Growth? The transition to a sustainable economy, 2009, Commission) Stephen Spratt, A Simms, E Neitzert & J Ryan-Collins, The Great Transition: A tale of how it turned out right, nef, 2009 – downloadable from http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/great-transition Victoria Johnson, A Simms, C Skrebowski & T Greenham, Economics of oil dependency: A glass ceiling to recovery, nef, 2012 – downloadable from http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/the-economics-of-oil-dependence-a-glass- ceiling-to-recovery Robert Ayres & Benjamin Warr, The Engine: How energy and work create material prosperity”, 2009, Edward Elgar Robert Ayres & Benjamin Warr, Accounting for growth: The role of physical work", 2005, Chapter in: Joan Martinez-Alier and Inge Røpke (Ed.) Recent developments in , 2008, Edward Elgar BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009, ITPOES, 2010 Rising oil price threatens fragile recovery, Financial Times, 4 January 2011 Charles AS Hall, Provisional Results from EROI Assessments, New York, 2008, https://www.theoildrum.com/node/3810 Towards the Circular Economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2012. Downloadable from http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org Julian Allwood & Jonathan M. Cullen, Sustainable Materials with Both Eyes Open, 2011, UIT Cambridge. Downloadable from http://withbotheyesopen.com Jeremy Oppenheim, Green Growth - The New Normal?, 2012, McKinsey & Co, UCL ISR Lecture , Steady-State Economics, 1977, 2nd ed. 1992, Earthscan Herman Daly, Beyond Growth: Economics of Sustainable Development, 1997, Beacon Press Peter Victor, Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, 2008, Edward Elgar Fred Hirsch, The Social Limits to Growth, 1977, Routledge & Kegan Paul Avner Offer, The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950, 2007, OUP Michael Lewis, Wall street on the Tundra, April 2009, Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904-2

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