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A new consensus in economic thought is emerging around the question of how nations should take care of their economies. This reading list is designed with the goals of winning over people who–whether they’re progressives or centrists–are still entrenched in the old consensus of neoliberalism, and also providing converts with a deeper understanding of various aspects of the new consensus.
https://newconsensus.net/reading-list/
First, get yourself de-programmed with Bad Samaritans
Concrete Economics
Made in the USA
The Entrepreneurial State
Doughnut Economics
Makers and Takers
Invisible Hands
Rethinking Captalism
Economic's the users guide, Ha-Joon Chang
Against the Concensus, Justin Lin
The Public Banking Solution, Ellen Brown
The Production of Money, Ann Pettifore
The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King – former governor of the Bank of England
The Shifts and the Shocks,
The Only Game in Town, Mohamed El-Erian
Freedom’s Forge, Arthur Herman
Creative Destruction, Mark Wilson
When Small States Make Big Steps, Darius Ornston
The Transformation of South Korea, Byung Kook Kim & Ezra F Vogel
MITI and the Japanese Miracle, Chalmers Johnson
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not,
Get a deeper overview of the emerging consensus from a whole range of economists – including:
The Failure of Austerity: Rethinking Fiscal Policy (Stephanie Kelton)
Understanding Money and Macroeconomic Policy (L. Randall Wray and Yeva Nersisyan)
The Costs of Short-termism (Andrew Haldane)
Innovative Enterprise and the Theory of the Firm (William Lazonick)
Innovation, the State and Patient Capital (Mariana Mazzucato)
Investment-led Growth: A Solution to the European Crisis (Stephany Griffith-Jones and Giovanni Cozzi)
Inequality and Economic Growth (Joseph Stiglitz)
The Paradoxes of Privatisation and Public Service Outsourcing (Colin Crouch)
Decarbonisation: Innovation and the Economics of Climate Change (Dimitri Zenghelis)
Capitalism, Technology and a Green Global Golden Age: The Role of History in Helping to Shape the Future (Carlota Perez)
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Demond Drummer is an organizer and civic innovator whose work in Chicago has been recognized by the Obama White House, Code for America and the Aspen Institute. He is currently co-founder and executive director of New Consensus. Demond’s notable projects include CoderSpace, a computer science learning lab where high school students develop leadership skills for a changing world, and LargeLots.org, a community-driven effort to reclaim and repurpose city-owned vacant lots in Chicago. An alumnus of Morehouse College, Demond was a field organizer for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. Demond lives with his wife and one-year-old daughter in Chicago
Rhiana Gunn-Wright was previously the Policy Director for Abdul El-Sayed’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign. A 2013 Rhodes Scholar, Ms. Gunn-Wright has also worked as the policy analyst for the Detroit Health Department, the Mariam K. Chamberlain Fellow of Women and Public Policy at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), and as a policy intern in for former First Lady Michelle Obama. Ms. Gunn-Wright graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 2011 with majors in African American Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
Zack Exley was a senior advisor to Bernie Sander’s 2016 presidential campaign, and was a co-founder of Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, which recruited and ran dozens of unconventional candidates for the 2018 midterms such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. With Becky Bond, Zack co-authored Rules for Revolutionaries, a book of organizing lessons and principles. In ancient internet times, he was the co-founder of the New Organizing Institute, and played a major role in the rise of online politics in his work with MoveOn.org, Howard Dean, John Kerry, the Obama campaign and as the non-profit practice director of a global software company called ThoughtWorks. He had a side career in online fundraising, working with global NGOs, including the Wikimedia Foundation, where he built a $90 million per year fundraising program to keep Wikipedia free and independent. Zack spent his 20’s working as a union organizer all over the United States.