Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

I would like to call attention to a recent book that should be of great interest to many members of the NCA: Douglas Rushkoff's, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity (2016). This trenchant and highly readable text walks through about 700+ years of Western economic history, reveals the logic underlying economic growth models, documents how new media forms are significantly impacting economic activity, and, all said, provides a radical reconsideration of possible monetary systems.  This is a must read book for anyone concerned with the role new media are playing in disrupting and supplanting traditional (i.e. growth-based) economics. It offers realistic and practical resources for today's (and tomorrow's) economic challenges, and it outlines bottoms-up strategies for more democratic societies.

Best,

Corey Anton