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Director's Summer
Reading List 2023

Recommendations for your Summer reading from Professor Henrietta L. Moore and the Institute for Global Prosperity
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Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism

Andrew Zitcer

Providing a new conceptual framework for cooperation as a form of social practice, Practicing Cooperation delivers a trenchant and timely argument that the way to a more just and equitable society lies in the widespread adoption of cooperative practices.

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The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

Nick Hayes

The Book of Trespass takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. By trespassing the land of the media magnates, Lords, politicians and private corporations that own England, Nick Hayes argues that the root of social inequality is the uneven distribution of land.

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No One Prayed Over Their Graves

Khaled Khalifa

Khalifa weaves a sweeping tale of life and death in the hubbub of Aleppine society at the turn of the twentieth century. No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a people on the verge of great change—from provincial villages to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews live and work together, united in their love for Aleppo and their dreams for the future.

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Till the end of the Earth

Cameron Holleran

A poem written by IGP's Poet-in-Residence Cameron Holleran, in response to Professor Henrietta Moore's lecture at Keele World Affairs on "Regenerative Agriculture: A Global Solution."

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Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae)

Abel Selaocoe

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe's album draws from vibrant European and African influences. The title of the album holds multifaceted significance for the Manchester-based musician: “Home is the place that empowers you; it’s not only a geographical place but in people as well, where you can live a life of empowerment and not of oppression. I’ve learned to find my different homes through the cello.”

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A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Thea Riofrancos

A Planet to Win explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal. It calls for dismantling the fossil fuel industry and building beautiful landscapes of renewable energy, guaranteeing climate-friendly work and no-carbon housing and free public transit. And it shows how a Green New Deal in the United States can strengthen climate justice movements worldwide.

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Third World: The Bottom Dimension

Gabriel Massan

Journey through a fantastical world conceptualised by artist Gabriel Massan, and featuring artists Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Novíssimo Edgar and LYZZA that investigates Black-Brazilian experience and the ramifications of colonialism on our ecosystem. As an agent of a mysterious organisation known as the Headquarters you are sent to the territories of Igba Tingbo and Sòfo to fulfil a mission, but events soon begin to unfold otherwise.

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Open Throat

Henry Hoke

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Fascinated by the voices around them, the lion spends their days protecting a nearby homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their own identity.

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The Great Simplification

Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment. The goal of the show is to inform more humans about the path ahead and inspire people to play a role in our collective future.

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Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century:
Concepts, models and metrics

Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Matthew Davies, Nikolay Mintchev, and Saffron Woodcraft

This edited volume challenges orthodox understandings of economic models, but goes beyond contemporary debates to show how social innovation drives economic value. Drawing on substantive research in the UK, Lebanon and Kenya, it develops new concepts, frameworks, models and metrics for prosperity across a wide range of contexts, emphasising commonalities and differences

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Denizen

Tobias Nash

All global environmental issues are the result of human action. Human psychology underlies all human action. Therefore, if we can better understand how we make decisions, we can make better decisions. Denizen is a documentary about how we can eliminate waste and build a circular economy using behavioural psychology.

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Crack-Up Capitalism

Quinn Slobodian

Historian Quinn Slobodian follows the most notorious radical libertarians - from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel - around the globe as they search for the perfect home for their free market fantasy. The hunt leads from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the medieval City of London, and finally into the world's oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where capitalism and democracy can be finally uncoupled.

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About the Institute for Global Prosperity

The Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) is redesigning prosperity for the 21st century, changing the way we conceive and run our economies, and reworking our relationship with the planet. IGP's vision is to build a prosperous, sustainable, global future, underpinned by the principle of fairness and justice, and allied to a realistic, long-term vision of humanity's place in the world. 

The IGP undertakes pioneering research that seeks to dramatically improve the quality of life for this and future generations. Its strength lies in the way it allies intellectual creativity to effective collaboration and policy development. Of particular importance to the IGP's approach is the way in which it integrates non-academic expertise into its knowledge generation by engaging with governments, policy makers, business, civil society, the arts and local communities.

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