Books by Donella Meadows
“My background in political science was all about linear, causal thinking, and the discovery of systems thinking was absolutely mind-blowing for me. Meadows’s book is the best comprehensive primer on it. It’s not a particularly easy book to read but it’s essential.” Read more...
The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking
Roman Krznaric, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Donella Meadows were recommended
The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking, recommended by Roman Krznaric
We would all love our economic and political systems to be less short-termist in approach, but how do we set about encouraging a more long-term ethos? Cultural thinker Roman Krznaric, author of The Good Ancestor, recommends five books to get us thinking about the long term, up to ten millennia in the future.
The best books on Rethinking Economics, recommended by Kate Raworth
Economic orthodoxy in no way equips for the challenges of the 21st century, the ‘renegade economist’ Kate Raworth tells Five Books. It’s time to rethink basic concepts and paradigms, and redraw the boundaries.
The best books on Relationship Therapy, recommended by Mira Kirshenbaum
Systems thinking is key to figuring out how relationships work, says Mira Kirshenbaum, psychotherapist and clinical director of the Chestnut Hill Institute. She chooses the best books to help us understand modern relationship therapy.
