ECORITY: The Economics of Enough

A rice farm in north-east Thailand keeps its water through the dry season. A small company in Wales builds hydrogen cars and gives the living world one of six voices in its decisions. Between them lies the question this book sets out to answer: what would an economy look like if it knew when it had enough?

For two centuries the world has run on a single operating rule — more is always better. Richard David Hames calls that rule industrial economism. In ECORITY he traces how it captured our m...