Recommended Reading
These are a few of the books and articles I’ve found helpful in understanding the current world. I obviously don’t agree and endorse everything presented therein, but taken as a whole, they have given me a better understanding of the awesome confluence of societal forces at work today.
Technology / Business
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
The Wisdom of Crows by James Surowiecki
Finance / Economics
Web of Debt by by Ellen Hodgson Brown
Crash Proof by Peter D. Schiff and John Downes
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
Energy / Environment
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinburg
The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
The Great Turning by David Korten
The End of Oil: On the edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn
Food
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The End of Food by Paul Roberts
Politics / Geopolitics
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet by Michael Klare
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing by Stephen Marshall
The Revolution by Ron Paul
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Cautionary Fiction
The Shell Game by Steve Alten
World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Stand by Stephen King