There always have been pages that disrupt. In the old days they got burnt. Still do, in some places. But right now, there are brilliant books everywhere. We've started to collect, and share, our favourites right here.

All we need to do is read them. And argue with them. Scribble your own responses in the margin, highlight, score through, underline, cross out and disagree. Lend them, borrow them, buy them, share them. Then talk about them to someone else. The point is they're there to make us think. And reading each of these is like setting off a box of firecrackers between your ears.

We're recommending our favourites below...if you have one to suggest, add it to the comments box or contact us here. We'll get it up here. They all have a link to the site that will tell you where to find your nearest local independent book shop. 'Cos we don't do that ama*on thing on here. Sorta defeats the object of the whole dang website...

Each of these books talks about economics AND community AND the environment - that's part of the reason they're considered disruptive. (We do like our silos. ) But as we know ... the world definitely doesn't work like that. So this very broad catergorisation is just that. Really, really broad. And it's just to show that people are now thinking disruptively *in all quarters* .....

disruptive economics

"Read this, wrote on every page, finished it then went back to page one. Brilliant. " Manda

See Oliver Baines's page for his review...

"If I have a favourite book of all time, it's this one. It says everything about everything that needs to change." Manda

"My (ace) Dad read this three times. Nuff said. " Manda

"Just one of those DUHHH reads. That you will quote from forever. And that they tried to bring down...and failed. " Manda

"Once you've read this, you'll wish you had about...um...30 years ago...." Manda

Just brilliant. I would like every single economist to be given this, Prosperity without Growth (above) and The Grapes of Wrath before they make *any decision* about *anything*. " Manda

If you haven't heard about this one, today you will change that.

Tim Jones says: "Katrine Marçal Adam Smith, the father of modern economic theory, suggested that we expect that the Butcher, Brewer or Baker do what they do, not from benevolence, but from self-interest. And so was born the concept of the rational, economic man, quietly overlooking that Smith’s mother was the one who cooked his dinner, cleaned his house and made sure he had clean clothes to wear. Katrine Marçal brings a clear challenge to economic thinking that under-values the domestic, the unpaid and the largely ignored contribution that many people, often the work of women, make to society. Some will see this as simply a feminist perspective to economics, but I think her helpful book shows a fresh approach to the way we have been taught to think about many key values and produces a more rounded, richer perspective."

Tim Jones says: "Karl Marx is recognised as the great thinker on the role of capitalism in society, and for many the fall of the Soviet Union showed that Marx was wrong. Yet many people are beginning to question whether the current economic model is sustainable and whether there are alternative ways to structure our society and economic life. Mason’s book is an attempt to understand what may need to happen for a transition to take place and uses the thinking of a relatively unknown Russian economist, Nikolai Kondratieff, to help navigate the way ahead. This is a book to challenge and provoke and raises lots of questions, but it conveys a sense of urgency. After the Crash is 2008, with global challenges like climate change, ageing populations and the migration crisis, a business as usual approach is no longer tenable, so can the revolution in information technology, robotics and new approaches to cooperative and collaborative ownership point to a new model(s)?"

Wilkinson and Pickett say what we all know in our bellies. But now we have evidence... brilliant.

This is the natural sequel to the Spirit Level. This cannot come as a surprise... other than we needed a book to really accept this is a thing... excellent read. Recommended, with bells on.

disruptive society

disruptive "greenies"

disruptively definitively silo-busting