Sources and Resources for “A New Capitalism or a New World?”

The two books discussed in the opening of the article are:

 

Joel Kovel, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?  (New York: Zed Books, 2007)

 

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999).

 

For a recent survey of alternative indices-Human Development Index, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), Index of Social Health, and the Happy Planet Index)--and their relationship to GDP, see

 

James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale University Press, 2008)/

 

Speth, Dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, who served at Jimmy Carter's White House environmental advisor and as head of the United Nation's largest agency on international development, has come to essentially the same conclusion that my article purports to demonstrate regarding the fundamental unsustainability of capitalism.

 

For more details--and a fuller presentation of the model of Economic Democracy set out in the article, see my

 

After Capitalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). 

 

A more extensive treatment of essentially the same model, oriented more toward professional philosophers and economists, can be found in my

 

Against Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 1993; Westview (paperback), 1996).

 

Two classic texts on Mondragon are:

 

Whyte, William Foote and Kathleen King Whyte, Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (ILR Press, 1988)

 

Cheney, George, Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon (Cornell, 1999)

 

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