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These books offer deeper insights into various aspects of wellbeing economy approaches, providing theoretical frameworks, practical applications, and inspiring visions for transformative change. Please note: links are to searches for these books, you may have to alter the search to find them, not all links have been checked.

Books
5
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth
The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy
Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams
Wellbeing Economy: Success in a World Without Growth
Lorenzo Fioramonti
The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth
Mark Anielski
The New Economics: A Bigger Picture
David Boyle and Andrew Simms
4
Free Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Elinor Ostrom
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Rob Hopkins
Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness
Helena Norberg-Hodge
3
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism
Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider
P2P: The Commons Manifesto
Michel Bauwens Vasilis Kostakis and Alex Pazaitis
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
5
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns Build Movements and Change the World
Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning
Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
George Lakoff
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You
Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
7
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella Meadows
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi
Designing Regenerative Cultures
Daniel Christian Wahl
Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges
Otto Scharmer
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
David C. Korten
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
Yancey Strickler
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Jason Hickel
5
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
Paul Hawken
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Janine Benyus
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
Vandana Shiva
3
The Solutions Revolution: How Business Government and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems
William Eggers and Paul Macmillan
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward
Tanya Talaga
The Regenerative Business: Redesign Work Cultivate Human Potential Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes
Carol Sanford
4
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem
The Myth of Normal: Trauma Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Gabor Maté
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Daniel J. Siegel


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