Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, by Bill McKibben, 2010, St. Martins, and Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow, 2012, Crown. Review by Lindy Davies Continue reading
Category Archives: Reviews
Prosperity Doesn’t Work! What Should Replace It & Why
Free Trade Doesn’t Work: What Should Replace It and Why by Ian Fletcher, 2011, Coalition for a Prosperous America. Review by Lindy Davies
Imagine! More controversy about free trade. The same old arguments spin around and around. Continue reading
Stiglitz: Approaching Morality in Economics
Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future. New York: Norton Press, 2012. Review by Bill Batt
Joseph Stiglitz’s latest book takes up the theme that the health of a democracy depends upon the strength of a middle class. Continue reading
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander. New York, 2012, The New Press. Review by Lindy Davies
The title is “in your face” — what does she mean, “The New Jim Crow”? We have an African-American President; Affirmative Action is well-entrenched in education and employment; people aren’t anywhere near as freaked out over mixed-race couples as they used to be. Continue reading
Stolen Land — Stolen Lives — and the great con trick of DEBT!
2011, Peregrine Press, Pitlochry, Scotland. Review by Toby Lenihan
Shirley-Anne Hardy’s new book is a wonderful contribution to Georgist literature, which can interest people not usually inclined to study economics. Continue reading
Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle: What’s It Gonna Take?
Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle, by Walter Rybeck, 2011, Shepheard-Walwyn. Review by Lindy Davies
That’s the question that kept occurring to me as I read Walt Rybeck’s new book. I mean, if a really nice guy like this, with an impressive list of career accomplishments and a quietly powerful, lucid style — if a guy like that can’t get the reading public to wake up to truly obvious facts, well — What’s it gonna take? Continue reading
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
by Polly Cleveland
Humans evolved in small highly-cooperative groups. Today’s surviving hunter-gatherer societies, like the !Kung of the Kalahari or the Hadza of the Rift Valley, teach toddlers their first lesson: share everything. Continue reading
After the Crash: Designing a Depression-Free Economy
review by Lindy Davies
“The new Mason Gaffney book” is a major event – well, among Georgists, anyway – and I’m going to rave about it. It’s as clear a statement as one is likely to find of a message that desperately needs hearing. Continue reading
The Predator Culture
The Systemic Roots and Intent of Organized Violence
by Fred Harrison (2010, Shepheard-Walwyn, 172 pp.) Review by Lindy Davies
There’s no namby-pamby incrementalism in Fred Harrison’s latest book. The Predator Culture goes for it. Continue reading
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
by Jonathan Schell 2003, Henry Holt & Co., 433 pp. Review by Lindy Davies
Over the last few years many people have shared a growing apprehension that our nation has come “off the rails” and is careening madly toward some horrifying endgame. Continue reading