Creating New Societies - John Boik Ph.D.
Although this book suffers from a “we should do things different” problem (words on these lines do not change things easily!), it does...
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Will Sutherland
Sep 7, 201816 min
CHANGES FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE! The Need for effective Cultural Engineering
Sustainability and the consumer culture are in direct conflict. We are now locked into a set of behaviours based on fossil fuel and...
Will Sutherland
Sep 7, 20182 min
BLACK SWAN – Nassim Taleb
Taleb was a successful mathematical trader and is now a Professor of Uncertainty. This is a book about prediction and forecasting. Taleb...
Will Sutherland
Sep 7, 20182 min
BIG GODS How religion transformed co-operation and conflict - Ara Norenzayan 2013
The key argument of this book is that laws and customs are not sufficient in themselves to enable large groups of humans to live together...
Will Sutherland
Sep 7, 20183 min
ANTIFRAGILE How to live in a world we do not understand - Nassim Taleb
The concepts in this book are as simple as they are radical. They are extremely important yet poorly understood. The book is essential...
Will Sutherland
Sep 7, 20186 min
A history of the Internet and the Digital Future Johnny Ryan 2010
The key insight of this work is its clarity in understanding that the development of the internet and its associated structures (like the...
Will Sutherland
Sep 7, 20183 min
23 Things they don't tell you about Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang
This is a refreshingly honest book by an economist who is fully aware of the shortcomings of “economics” as a predictive social science....
Will Sutherland
Aug 1, 20185 min
Aftermath:The Cultures of the Economic Crisis- 2012 , Manuel Castells
Sources of US instability seen as: global computerised trading of capital and stocks deregulation invention of new exotic financial...
Will Sutherland
Aug 1, 201811 min
Metanoia - the Wisdom beyond Wildness
The War Against Greed 1. Finding the new roots of "Progress" It is time to leave the dark satanic mills behind us. It is time to say...
Will Sutherland
Jul 30, 20181 min
SO THE SNOW IS CLEARING AND THE SUN IS SHINING AGAIN
Somehow the winter seems to have rushed past - so fast in fact that I have not had time to update this site! Apologies. The garden is...
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