Bibliography and a few notes from Amory Starr’s lecture on the Political Economy of Food

Part 1: Toolbox of economic concepts

• commodification
• privatization (enclosures movement)
• growth
• alternative ways to measure an economy (math)
• Richard Douthwaite, the Growth Illusion&Short Circuit
• Herman Daly, Beyond Growth &Steady-state economics
• David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions
• Edward Goldsmith, The Great Uturn&7 Paths of ecology

• Enoughness

• classic text: Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity

  • about indigenous people: Pierre Clastres, Society against the State

  • reconsidering subsistence as wealth: Maria Mies & V. Bennholdt-Thomsen, The Subsistence Perspective

  • categories of less-commodified contemporary activity: J.K. Gibson-Graham, A Post-Capitalist Politics

Part 2: Global Economics

• colonialism

• “development”… structural adjustment/austerity

• Catherine Caufield, Masters of Illustion: the World Bank and Poverty

• Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its discontents andThe price of inequality

• the result of 12% growth in Baltics: Charles Woolfsen, The Contradictions of Austerity , about agriculture in Baltics: Dorothee Bohle &  Béla Greskovits, Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery

• “development is about people” Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Freedom and Development.

• free trade agreements

• www.bilaterals.org (newsbits, international)

• www.Citizen.org/trade (US)

• www.corporateeurope.org/ (Europe)

The process of elite design of global economy: Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine

Part 3: Artisan Economics

It’s about the story, meaningfulness, directness, decommodification, healing the land, food as community not as commodity, relationships, trust, commitment, regional culture, transparency, principled middlemen, building diversity for a better market rather than competing, defending the right to pleasure, and food sovereignty…

{Part 4: Social Movements}

• how to reform something: Piven & Cloward, Poor Peoples Movements

• factors in successful revolutions: John Foran, Taking Power

• change the world

• create an idea: Eyerman & Jamison: Social Movemetns: A cognitive approach

• and turn it into culture: Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present