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Badvertising - Polluting our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos: Andrew Simms, Leo Murray Badvertising - Polluting our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos
Andrew Simms, Leo Murray
R520 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Advertising is selling us a dream, a lifestyle. It promises us fulfilment and tells us where to buy it – in international flights, beef from (what was once) the Amazon, and a vast array of goods we consume like there is no tomorrow. And if advertising succeeds in keeping us on our current trajectory – there may not be a tomorrow. In Badvertising, Andrew Simms and Leo Murray raise the alarm on an industry that is making us both unhealthy and unhappy, and that is driving the planet to the precipice of environmental collapse in the process. The book asks what is the psychological impact of being barraged by literally thousands of advertisements a day? How does the commercialisation of our public spaces weaken our sense of belonging? What are the pitfalls of regulation? How are car manufacturers, airlines and oil companies lobbying to weaken climate action? And most crucially of all, what can we do to stop it?

The New Economics - A Bigger Picture (Paperback): Andrew Simms, David Boyle The New Economics - A Bigger Picture (Paperback)
Andrew Simms, David Boyle
R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money as a measure of success, this new economics turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty upside down. It shows us that real wealth can be measured by increased well-being and environmental sustainability rather than just having and consuming more things. This book is the first accessible and straightforward guide to the new economics. It describes the problems and bizarre contradictions in conventional economics as well as the principles of the emerging new economics, and it tells the real-world stories of how new economics is being successfully put into practice around the world. An essential guide to understanding new economics for all those who care about making economics work for people and planet.

The New Economics - A Bigger Picture (Hardcover): Andrew Simms, David Boyle The New Economics - A Bigger Picture (Hardcover)
Andrew Simms, David Boyle 1
R3,344 R2,969 Discovery Miles 29 690 Save R375 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money as a measure of success, this new economics turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty upside down. It shows us that real wealth can be measured by increased well-being and environmental sustainability rather than just having and consuming more things. This book is the first accessible and straightforward guide to the new economics. It describes the problems and bizarre contradictions in conventional economics as well as the principles of the emerging new economics, and it tells the real-world stories of how new economics is being successfully put into practice around the world. An essential guide to understanding new economics for all those who care about making economics work for people and planet.

Knock Twice - 25 modern folk tales for troubling times (Paperback): Andrew Simms Knock Twice - 25 modern folk tales for troubling times (Paperback)
Andrew Simms
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
There was a knock at the door - 23 modern folk tales for troubling times (Paperback): Philip Pullman There was a knock at the door - 23 modern folk tales for troubling times (Paperback)
Philip Pullman; Edited by Andrew Simms; Andrew Simms
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ecological Debt - Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations (Paperback, 2nd edition): Andrew Simms Ecological Debt - Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Andrew Simms
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts. Ecological Debt explores this great paradox of our age. Highlighting how and why this has happened, it also shows what can be done differently in the future. Now updated throughout, this is a passionate account of the steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.

Tescopoly - How One Shop Came Out On Top And Why It Matters (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Andrew Simms Tescopoly - How One Shop Came Out On Top And Why It Matters (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Andrew Simms 3
R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

You can shop anywhere you like -- as long as it's Tesco The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, director of the acclaimed think-and-do-tank the New Economics Foundation and the person responsible for introducing 'Clone Towns' into our vernacular, tackles a subject none of us can afford to ignore. The book shows how the supermarkets -- and Tesco in particular -- have brought: " Banality -- homogenized high streets full of clone stores " Ghost towns -- superstores have drained the life from our town centres and communities " A Supermarket State -- this new commercial nanny state that knows more about you than you think " Profits from poverty -- shelves full of global plunder, produced for a pittance " Global food domination -- as the superstores expand overseas But there's change afoot, with evidence of the tide turning and consumer campaigns gaining ground. Simms ends with suggestions for change and coporate reformation to safeguard our communities and environment -- all over the world. This book has been written and published independently from the Tescopoly Alliance and is not endorsed by them.

Cancel The Apocalypse - The New Path To Prosperity (Paperback, Digital original): Andrew Simms Cancel The Apocalypse - The New Path To Prosperity (Paperback, Digital original)
Andrew Simms
R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies? In fascinating and iconoclastic detail - on everything from the cash in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our working lives - Cancel the Apocalypse describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to our environment, and hasn't even made us any happier in the process. Simms believes passionately in the human capacity for change, and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While global warming and financial meltdown might feel like modern day horsemen of the apocalypse, Simms shows how such end of the world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beginning.

Eminent Corporations - The Rise and Fall of the Great British Brands (Paperback): Andrew Simms, David Boyle Eminent Corporations - The Rise and Fall of the Great British Brands (Paperback)
Andrew Simms, David Boyle 1
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How much do you know about the big-name brands we live by? Virgin, BP, Land Rover, Barclays, Cadbury's, BBC and M&S. In our times the PLCs have been seen as giants, the backbone of commerce and society. Yet seen through a historical perspective they are vulnerable creatures, flowering only briefly. In fact, on the Fortune 500 - a roll-call of power if ever there was one - there's just one company, General Electric, which was on the list half a century ago. The rest have gone: broken, bankrupt, merged, raided for their parts. More like mayflies than megacorps. And getting more fragile all the time. The great corporations that now dominate our lives are treated by the law courts as if they were people.They have the same rights, but unlike us they have no emotions, morals or life histories.The only corporate biographies you find are celebratory, promotional portraits with the warts left out. So, we don't really know where most great brands came from or where they are going. This book spills the beans by telling the real life stories of some of the biggest corporate names, and finds them as dramatic, flawed and revealing as any human biography.

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