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  • 2 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Paul Vigna |Michael Casey |Timothée Parrique |Denne Michele Norris

    The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became SinMoney and greed got a big assist from religion and then turned into a kind of religion, according to this accessible study from journalist Vigna (Guts). He starts with the invention of money in ancient Mesopotamia as an accounting system for debts owed to temples.

  • 3 weeks ago | buff.ly | Timothée Parrique |Denne Michele Norris |Raymond Antrobus |Nicholas Jubber

    Former firefighter Selby debuts with a fierce examination of identity, climate change, and the shortcomings of U.S. fire policy. At 19, Selby turned to firefighting as an escape from their emotionally abusive upbringing, having already fled home several times and developed an alcohol habit as a teenager. Over the next seven years, Selby battled blazes across the American west, including in California’s Sequoia National Forest and remote corners of Utah.

  • 1 month ago | buff.ly | Donna Leon |Timothée Parrique |Denne Michele Norris |Raymond Antrobus

    Crime novelist Leon (the Guido Brunetti series) serves up a wide-ranging collection of poignant and amusing essays about her writing process and artistic influences.

  • Sep 18, 2024 | resilience.org | Timothée Parrique

    Literature reviews are usually quite uncontroversial. But this is not the case of “Reviewing studies of degrowth: Are claims matched by data, methods and policy analysis?”, a recent paper by Ivan Savin and Jeroen van den Bergh, two economists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. “The piece sparked a meltdown,” explains Glen Peters, who witnessed the online stir caused by its publication last week.

  • Mar 4, 2024 | znetwork.org | Timothée Parrique

    On February 23rd, 2024, the New York-based socialist magazine Jacobin published “4 problems for the degrowth movement,” a short piece written by Daniel Driscoll, a social science researcher at Brown University. Like all the previous Jacobin articles touching on the topic[1], this one is firmly against degrowth. On social media, the article has been intensely bashed. “Pure ideological blinkers” (Julia Steinberger) from the “anti-degrowth Jacobin gang” (Dan Kervick).

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