Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful
On the Economics of Enoughness and the Tyranny of the Gigantic
Economics and Political Economy
The Other Economy
The Gift
On how gifts circulate and grow through obligation and community, while commodities end in isolated exchange and silence
The Architecture of Capital
The Commodity and Its Fetish
On how capitalism obscures the labor that creates value by presenting social relationships as relationships between things
Schumacher
The Question of Intermediate Technology
On Tools That Fit the Human Hand and Economies That Serve the People They Claim to Serve
The Other Economy
Governing the Commons
On how communities sustainably govern shared resources through inclusion, accountability, and proportional sanctions—from fisheries to Wikipedia
The Architecture of Capital
The Leisure Class
On how the leisure class emerged from predatory culture and perpetuates itself through emulation, conspicuous consumption, and the stigmatization of productive labor
Schumacher
A Guide for the Perplexed
On the Levels of Being, the Map That Was Lost, and the Wisdom Tradition That Addresses the Whole Person
The Other Economy
Doughnut Economics
On how economic models can embed both planetary boundaries and social thresholds, transforming vague environmental concern into measurable constraint and redistribution imperative
The Architecture of Capital
The Neoliberal Revolution
On how Hayek's insight about dispersed knowledge became justification for market supremacy, and Friedman's vision of total market coordination as policy
Schumacher
The Other Economy
On Work as Vocation, the Informal Economy, and the Things That Cannot Be Priced
The Other Economy
The Precariat
On the seven institutional securities the postwar labor compromise provided, their systematic dismantling, and what political possibility remains in precarious workers' justified anger
The Architecture of Capital
The Return of the Rentier
On how capital's passive returns are outpacing productive work, and why the twenty-first century resembles the pre-industrial world more than the progressive narrative admits