A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all over the world, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and war. For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cag…
Green and Social Economy Finance is a compilation of chapters by experts, linking research and practice. This anthology provides a new thinking on social economy green finance, showing emerging themes and trends. It spans from stock markets, green finance, innovations, digitalization to social finance, governance and theories of change. It concentrates on impact, opportunity recognition and dev…
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable E…
The Ecology of Commerce is the provocative national bestseller that addresses the necessity of merging good business practices with common sense environmental concerns. Nearly two decades after its initial publication, this controversial work by Paul Hawken has been revised and updated, arguing why business success and sustainable environmental practices need not—and, for the sake of our plan…
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales rangin…
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future. These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted. In Material World, Ed Conway …
Some people have it, and others don’t. Jeffrey Pfeffer explores why, in Power. One of the greatest minds in management theory and author or co-author of thirteen books, including the seminal business-school text Managing With Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer shows readers how to navigate the realities of organizational politics to succeed and wield power in the real world. This unflinching busine…
Rama Mangun, manusia multidimen-sional. Sastrawan, arsitek, pendidik, pemikir, rohaniwan yang tekun, akti-vis gerakan sosial-politik yang peka dalam segala soal, utamanya penghargaan harkat kemanusiaan.“Belajar dari Ujaran, Tindakan dan Gagasan Rama Mangun”, (hlm. viii) Ada nuansa spontanitas dalam laku politik hati nurani. Sama seperti yang dilakukan Rama Mangun, ia “hanya menulis”.…
Buku ini berkisah tentang peristiwa lahirnya Yayasan Toyota dan Astra (YTA). Beratnya langkah yang harus ditempuh, pilihan yang akhirnya harus diambil, serta berbagai kegiatan yang dilakukan membuat YTA semakin kokoh. Tidak sedikit kegiatan yang sudah dilakukan YTA selama 50 tahun perjalanannya. Berawal dari bantuan berupa beasiswa dan peralatan untuk sekolah, sampai akhirnya menggarap hal yang…
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overchar…