Resources

Web

• Modern Money Lab. Registered charity, providing resources and (currently) the world's only available academic degree/coursework combining Modern Money Theory with environmental sustainability

• Degrowth (political collective and resources). ​

• Degrowth and Research (think tank).

• World Economic Forum (2022), 'Degrowth – what's behind the economic theory and why does it matter right now?'.

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Books

• Humankind: A hopeful history by Rutger Bregman

• The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

• Macroeconomics by Bill Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, and Martin Watts

• Enough by John Naish

• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

• The Road To Freedom: Economics and the good society by Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Podcasts

• Holding The Fire: Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling, global warming-focused interview series anchored by Dahr Jamail ​

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Videos

Humans are decent and we must reorganise our communities, businesses and economy around that fact. 

• Humankind: A hopeful history by Rutger Bregman, interviewed by Daniel H Pink

• https://youtu.be/dBC8XrRPJRc?si=K_HTMI0c7anUErY2

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Academic Research 

The real bystander effect -  91% of the time people help one another! 

• Philpot, R., Liebst, L. S., Levine, M., Bernasco, W., & Lindegaard, M. R. (2020). Would I be helped? Cross-national CCTV footage shows that intervention is the norm in public conflicts. American Psychologist, 75(1), 66–75. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000469

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Can we afford the Green New Deal?

• Nersisyan, Y., and L. Randall Wray. 2020. “Can we afford the Green New Deal.” Public Policy Brief No. 148. Annandale-onHudson, NY: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. May. https://www.levyinstitute.org/files/download.php?file=ppb_148.pdf&pubid=2647

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How to pay for the Green New Deal

• Nersisyan, Y., and L. Randall Wray. 2019. “How to Pay for the Green New Deal.” Working Paper No. 931. Annandale-onHudson, NY: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. May. https://www.levyinstitute.org/files/download.php?file=wp_931.pdf&pubid=2622

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Doing good can be contagious

• Fowler, J. H. and Christakis, N. A. (2010). Cooperative Behavior Cascades in Human Social Networks. PNAS, Vol. 107, Issue 12. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0913149107

 

"Degrowth can work - here's how science can help"

• Commentary published in Nature, December 2022 (multiple authors).