
Books, Articles & Podcasts
A collection of our favorite media around money, the economy and our relationship to themes like wealth & value.
Personal Money Work
📃 Life, Interdependence,
and the Pursuit of Meeting Needs & many other articles on Miki Kashtan's Blog
📃 I've made peace with Money - Nina Downer, Conscious U
📗The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
🎧 Social Justice, Money Work & what it means to be a good person -Agnes Otzelberger (1h)
Money in Organizations
🎥 Designing collaborative compensation systems/financial decision-making processes - Lena Bumke & Francesca Pick
📃 Happy Money Stories - How it works - Greater Than
📖 The Greaterthan Handbook, in particular Financial Agreement and information about Stewardship Ownership model
🎧 Community, Capital & Regeneration - ReFi Podcast with Philip Stehlik & Lena Bumke
The Monetary System
🎥Banking 101 - How money is created by banks & debunking myths around money & banking - Positive Money UK (video playlist, 20 min- 1h)
📃 David Graeber on how we understand money (Article, 5 min)
📃 Money, Power, and Monetary Regimes by Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
🎬 Finding the Money (Documentay, 2h)
📃 What are the issues that make money (and our monetary systems) so problematic? - Dark Matter Labs (Article, 10 min)
🎧“The War on Cash with Brett Scott”, Upstream Podcast, 2022, (podcast conversation) (1 hr 6 min)
Understanding the Economy
🎥 What is Economics? Part 1 of 3, , Part 2 of 3, Part 3 of 3,, -Kate Raworth (video, 10 min each)
🎥 What is the economy? - Economics for Emancipation (video, 3 min)
🎥 What makes something valuable? - Economics for Emancipation (video, 2 min)
🎥 How do we organize economies - Command, Commodify, community - Economics for Emancipation (video, 2 min)
🎥 Economics is for everyone, Ha-Joon Chang,2016 (video, 12 mins)
🎧 There’s no such thing as the economy - Economics for Emancipation (podcast, 40 min)
What is the GDP? - Economics for Emancipation (video, 5 min)
🎥 How does government spending influence the economy? - Economics for Emancipation (video, 5 min)
🎥 The nature of capital - Economics for Emancipation
🎥 “Economic Man vs Humanity: a Puppet Rap Battle,” - Kate Raworth, Emma Powell, and Simon Panrucker (video 7 min)
🎥 The Impossible Hamster - New Economics Foundation, 2010, (Video, 3 min)
Nurturing Economic Diversity -
Alternative Ideas & Practices
📃New Economic Schools of Thought - a concise overview - Renilde Becqué
📗Economic Pluralism Database - Exploring Economics
📗 Non-Western Economic Practices
📗 Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet, Samatha Power & Leon Seefeld (Free Book)
📃 Towards multivalent currencies, bioregional monetary stewardship and a distributed global reserve currency - Dark Matter Labs (article series, 30 min)
🎧 River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs, Accidental Gods Podcast (1 hr)
📃 Investing Into the Solidarity Economy - Zine by CHordata Capital
🎥“How to Save the Planet: Degrowth vs. Green Growth” Jason Hickel, Kate Raworth, Samuel Fankhauser 2022 (video) (93 minutes)
Extended list of alternative approaches:
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Gross National Happiness from the Kingdom of Bhutan
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Economy for the Common Good - global, started in Austria
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The Well-being of Future Generations Act in Wales
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Buen Vivir, from Latin America and South America
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Wellbeing Economy Alliance
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National Performance Framework in Scotland
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The Post Growth Institute - global, US started
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Doughnut Economics - global, local cities
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Degrowth - global, local communities/cities
Things that insipire us
🎧 Pop Up Pod - Nicole Antoinette
🎧 “The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance,” Robin Wall Kimmerer,2022, (essay / audio, 44 min)
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