My economics textbook "An Economy of Want" is now published and available on Amazon (ISBN: 978-1-3999-8588-8). The book is first of all a 'how the economy works' text, written by an engineer. It addresses how the operation of the economy underlies the problems of devastating environmental damage, deindustrialisation, lack of adequate livelihoods, and other health & social ills. A second part to the book contemplates what, based on the analysis, we might do to improve things.

It's the work of 30 years of occasional notes and study whenever I could fit it in, plus a more intense effort over the last few years in retirement. It's based on my training and career as an engineer, on experience of the labour and environmental movements, and on the 5 years I spent working in Nicaragua - then and probably still one of the poorest countries in Latin America. I fear that my generation has largely failed the next. This is my best shot at trying to do something about it.

Amazon have a 'Look Inside' feature if you are curious.

(If you are based outside the UK, find it on your local Amazon site, not the UK one!)

An Economy of Want

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