David Boyle “Money Matters”

ISBN-13: 978-1-906136-20-8. “Money Matters: putting the eco into economics – global crisis and local solutions” was written by David Boyle and published by Alastair Sawday Publishing in 2009. The title of this book does slightly smack of cashing in upon the global economic crisis that no doubt hadn’t started when this book was being conceived. Indeed Boyle admits that the global markets were coming unravelled as he was writing so he didn’t know the conclusions. Writing this review in 2011 I don’t think we are any the wiser but, if we thought there would be a see-change in global monetary affairs you would be wrong. Continue reading

David Boyle & Andrew Simms “The New Economics – A Bigger Picture”

ISBN 978-1-84407-675-8. “The New Economics – A Bigger Picture” was written by David Boyle and Andrew Simms and published by Earthscan in 2009. (You get 192 pages including acknowledgments, eleven chapters, appendices and index.) The “New Economics” describes itself as being about “changing the rules by which economics works [...] about making things happen locally…”. It all sounds reasonable until the authors too easily shift into describing it vaguely as something to do with “people and planet”. Continue reading