plenitude

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, by Juliet Schor

I don't care who you are, read this book.  Juliet Schor has intelligently written a road map for the world in the face of political, economic, and ecological decline.  This book does for economics what Michael Pollen's Omnivore's Dilemna did for the food industry.  The problems that we face as a society are great, but the solutions that the author presents are exciting to say the least: less time at work, more time self-provisioning (think gardening, home-brewing or knitting), and more time on small-scale decentralized entrepreneurship endeavors.  Schor offers an ambitious yet realistic alternative to business as usual economics and politics.
-KJW