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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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