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
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Enoughness
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classic text: Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity
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about indigenous people: Pierre Clastres, Society against the State
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reconsidering subsistence as wealth: Maria Mies & V. Bennholdt-Thomsen, The Subsistence Perspective
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categories of less-commodified contemporary activity: J.K. Gibson-Graham, A Post-Capitalist Politics
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Part 2: Global Economics
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colonialism
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“development”… structural adjustment/austerity
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Catherine Caufield, Masters of Illustion: the World Bank and Poverty
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Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its discontents andThe price of inequality
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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
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“development is about people” Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Freedom and Development.
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free trade agreements
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www.bilaterals.org (newsbits, international)
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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}
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how to reform something: Piven & Cloward, Poor Peoples Movements
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factors in successful revolutions: John Foran, Taking Power
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change the world
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create an idea: Eyerman & Jamison: Social Movemetns: A cognitive approach
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and turn it into culture: Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present
