The Approaching Great Transformation
Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Published on 9. April 2013
256 pages
978-1-60980-481-7 (ISBN)
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"A brave book by a smart person with a masterful command of economic theory."-Publisher's Weekly How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive question, focusing on the people and communities already at work on the transition: energy descent pioneers in the UK and the US educating their communities about the road ahead, small enterprises defying traditional "profit" in favor of permanence and sustainability, and cities preparing for a post carbon future. Highlighting the work of thinkers like John Ruskin and E. F. Schumacher, Magnuson here builds on his previous book, Mindful Economics.
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JOEL MAGNUSON is an independent economist based in Portland, Oregon. He is a visiting fellow at the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, serves as an international advisor to Anglia's Interconnections, and is on the faculty at the East West Sanctuary in Nagykovácsi, Hungary. He is the author of Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why It Matters, and How It Could Be Different (Seven Stories Press, 2008).
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Thanks
- Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge
- Introduction: Another Sea Change
- The Twilight of the Oil Age
- A Brief Update on Peaking and Warming
- Our Great Transformation
- Chapter One: From Transition to Transformation
- The Origins of the Transition Movement
- Transition Philosophy
- The Ingredients of the Transition Model
- Transition Projects
- Challenges to the Transition Movement
- Conclusion: From Transition to Transformation
- Chapter Two: Economies in Transition-A Systems View
- We Are the Agents of Change
- Taking the Bird's Eye View
- What About the Individual?
- Creating a New Universe
- Conclusion
- Chapter Three: This Road Pav ed With Good Intentions
- The Economics of Growth
- Rethinking Green Economics
- Rethinking Green Energy
- Rethinking Localization-Small is Not Always Beautiful
- Conclusion
- Chapter Four: E. F. Schumacher and the Meta -Economists
- The Early British Meta-Economists
- The Young Americans
- E. F. Schumacher, Economist and Philosopher
- Conclusion
- Chapter Five: The New Monastics
- The New Monastics and Crafting New Institutions
- The B Lab Connections
- Banking and the North Dakota and Santa Fe Connections
- The Urban Farmer and the Food Resilience Connection
- The Local Government Connection
- The Colorado Connection
- The Cooperatives Connection
- The Health Care Connection
- The Household Connection
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six: Educat ion and Our Great Transformation
- Developing Our Skills-New and Old
- Reforming Education for thest Century
- Conclusion: changing the way we approach change
- Notes
