Unintended Consequences
One of the first people to analyse systematically the notion of unintended consequences was Sir Karl Popper in his early book The Open Society and…… Read More »
Author: David Lorimer
An Antidote to Violence
Authors: Barry Spivack, Patricia Saunders
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Many readers will be familiar with the 'Maharishi Effect' whereby it seems that a small focussed group of meditators can have an intentional beneficial effect…… Read More »
And They Knew Each Other
Authors: Dieter Duhm, Sabine Lichtenfels
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
The authors of this hugely important book are co-founders of the Tamera Community in the Portugal, and have been partners for over 40 years. Spending…… Read More »
Do Morals Matter?
The author is former Dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and has been recently ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy.…… Read More »
The Economics of Belonging
Martin Sandbu has been writing at the FT since 2009 and advances here 'a radical plan to win back the left behind and achieve prosperity…… Read More »
Shut It Down
I doubt that readers who are not already activists will have heard of Lisa Fithian who, as it says on the back of this powerful…… Read More »
You Die at the End
The author of this book teaches philosophy and is a practising Stoic, a feature that comes out strongly in this (moral philosophy) book subtitled 'meditations…… Read More »
I Did it to Myself…Again!
Some readers will be familiar with the work of Edgar Cayce and perhaps that of Michael Newton, Joel Whitton and Joe Fisher on life between…… Read More »
Arthur and Me
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a prominent advocate of spiritualism during his lifetime, so it is fitting that he is reported here to have communicated…… Read More »
Till Death Don't Us Part
This well-written book by a former sceptical and atheistic journalist is the story of awakening after the author lost her fiancé and found that she…… Read More »