• Read: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
    • Nearly finished it now.
    • Very good all in all. Very readable intro to some economics concepts, in particular through a critical lens of capitalism.
    • Very easy to read. (As such not the most rigourous analysis, but thats fine)
    • Interesting to note he uses ‘experiential’ value rather than use value.
    • His brief suggestion of a solution to capitalism is that we need more democracy rather than more markets.
      • In ownership of the means of production and in control over how we treat the environment
  • Read:
    • So far: very interesting.
    • But unnecessarily disdainful in tone to some of the other projects that it is critiquing. We’re all on the same side here!
    • And, so far, while very interesting, the vision for the future they outline is just as lacking in scientific rigour as any of the projects that they are critiquing.
      • Going to assume that the science bit is going to come later.
    • Unflinching mentions of carbon capture and storage / direct air capture is a bit of a red flag.
  • Read: Forest and Factory
    • Subtitle: The Science and the Fiction of Communism.
    • Heard about it from the This Machine Kills podcast.
    • Very interesting. A modern day update on the topic of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
    • Critiques a bunch of things I’ve read recently as utopian, in the sense of lacking any practical route from the here and now to there.
      • Fair comment – though I’ve appreciated them, I’ve thought similar.
    • Not got to their own prescription for transformation yet.