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Garden Earth - From Hunter and Gatherers to Global Capitalism and Thereafter by Gunnar Rundgren (Hardback, 2013)

Our society and the capitalist market ecomy have failed to create well-being for many. Big parts of humanity are as poor today as they were fifty years ago, despite unprecedented growth. Gaps between the rich and poor are abrmal and growing. In addition, the ecomic system, supposedly managing itself through the invisible hand, is in constant need of corrections and controls, because it doesn't work as it is supposed to. The failures of the industrial capitalist society are t booms and busts or inflation; they are mere symptoms of underlying conflicts. The real failure is that it erodes the human, natural and social capital that it needs for its operation. It lacks the regenerative properties which a successful society and a thriving human civilization need. Finally, it is also based on flawed assumptions of what motivates human enterprise and what the drivers for human progress are. Garden Earth stands out from the current flow of books on climate change, the financial crisis, globalization, the food and agriculture crisis or peak-oil. It avoids the trap of using just one lens to make sense of the world. It does, however, put these present day problems in a wide and deep perspective. The main themes examined by Garden Earth are ecology; society and its power relations; the market ecomy and capitalism; and, techlogy and energy.

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