Green Economics

Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of ...

( Dame Anita Roddick DBE)

Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of economic globalisation to coherent and credible alternatives....Woodin and Lucas distinguish themselves as two of the very few British politicians able and willing not only to imagine a different world, but to set out practical steps to reach it.

( Dame Anita Roddick DBE)

We stand at a crucial point in history. One future ...

(Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friend)

We stand at a crucial point in history. One future leads to spiraling inequality, insecurity and environmental decline - another road heads toward sustainability. Most of our elected representatives know only one way ahead - the way of corporate globalisation. So here is the exception, not more anti-globalisation or pro-globalisation, but a genuine alternative that promotes policies for people and the planet. If more politicians thought like this, we would live in a far better world.

(Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (UK) )

Policy makers are trying to make failed economic theory work, ...

(Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Econo)

Policy makers are trying to make failed economic theory work, like farmers trying to milk a dead cow. Caroline Lucas and Mike Woodin know its time to move on and try something different. Here is proof that there are alternatives. Some things about globalisation are here to stay, like information technology and rapid cultural diffusion . But the policies that lead to greater gaps between rich and poor, promote social alienation and destroy diversity have been made by policy makers and so can be 'unmade.' This book tells us how to begin that transformation.

(Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation)