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Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Ray Oldenburg • The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

HINT 2: SMALL SIZE, VERY HIGH GROWTH

Richard Koch • The 80/20 Principle

On scale advantages, occasionally, scaling down and intensifying gives you the big advantage. Bigger is not always better.

Charlie Munger • A Lesson On Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business – Charles Munger, USC Business School, 1994

The design presented in the rest of the book rests on three pillars. First, reduce waste and increase efficiency. It's possible to live with the same benefits as the rest of society for one quarter of what the average consumer spends. Many of these

Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

Meadows was a skilled economic gardener in this sense, having spent much of her life watching the dance of social-ecological systems in action, and observing the value of what was already there. In fact, she noted, effective systems tend to have three properties – healthy hierarchy, self-organisation and resilience – and so should be stewarded to e

Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis

Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side. ― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Ma... See more

Increasingly, people accept the once controversial notion that the future calls for a society with no economic growth. A planet with limited resources cannot host unlimited growth (Kenneth Boulding, the economist, mystic, and peace activist, once quipped, “Anybody who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madma

Frédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

This is the first lesson in this book: economic security isn’t a function of what you earn but what you keep and knowing how much is enough for you.

Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success

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