The bHive team have spent a lot of time thinking about creating a model for a thriving local economy that looks after people and place. There have been so many brilliant thinkers who have inspired us. If you’re keen to delve deeper too, here are some books to get stuck into. At the bottom is an incredible list put together by Kate Raworth, economist and author of one of our faves “Doughnut Economics”. Kate asked twitter for inspirational reads about creating a better world had 300 responses! Read away folks! Such good thinking has been done for us already.
Doughnut Economics; 7 ways to think like a 21st century economist, Kate Raworth
Who do we choose to be, Margaret Wheatley
Ours to hack and own, Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz
Uber worked and underpaid, Trebor Scholz
Platform Cooperativism, Challenging the Corporate Sharing economy, Trebor Scholz
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human, Douglas Rushkoff
Peers Inc, Robin Chase
Biomimicry, Janine Benyus
Building a healthy economy from the ground up, Anthony Flaccavento
Sharing Economy, Janelle Orsi
Humanizing the Economy, Restakis
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Charles Eisenstein
How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today, John Thakara
Local Money, Peter North
The Third Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin
The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Jeremy Rifkin
Designing Regenerative Cultures, Daniel Wahl
The Great Turning, by David Korten
Agenda for a New Economy, David Korten
Active Hope by Joanna Macy
Deep Economy, Bill McKibben
How On Earth, Donnie Maclurcan and Jen Hinton
Take back the economy; an ethical guide for transforming our communities, J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Stephen Healy
The Wealth of the Commons; A World Beyond Market and State, David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
Think Like a Commoner, David Bollier
The Future of the Commons – Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation, Elinor Ostrom
Re-imagining Value: Insights from the Care Economy, Commons, Cyberspace and Nature, David Collier
Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom
All That We Share, Jay Walljasper
Patterns of Commoning, David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society, Raj Patel
Local Dollars, Local Sense, Michael Shuman
The local economy solution, Michael Shuman
Vital Little Plans, the Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Technology Versus Humanity, Gerd Leonhard
Drawdown, Paul Hawken
Natural Capitalism, Paul Hawken, Loving and Lovins
The ecology of Commerce, Paul hawken
The Good Life, Hugh Mackay
Belonging, Hugh Mackay
From What is to What if, Rob Hopkins
Out of the Wreckage, George Monbiot
No More Heroes, Jordan Flaherty
Want more? Here is Kate Raworth’s list: https://www.kateraworth.com/2018/08/24/seaside-reads-to-change-the-world/