






Core readings
**Chang H.J. (2014). Economics: the User’s Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
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**Eisenstein, C. (2011). Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Evolver Editions.
http://sacred-economics.com/read-online/
Week 1: Design thinking and CSR
*Potter, M. and Kramer, M. R. (2011). Creating Shared Value. Harvard Business Review, 89 (1/2): 62-77.
https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value
*Ostrom, E. (2010). Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems. American Economic Review, 100: 641-672. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2009/ostrom_lecture.pdf
IDEO x NESTA (2016). Designing for Public Services. London: NESTA. https://www.nesta.org.uk/toolkit/designing-for-public-services-a-practical-guide/
Sevaldson, B. (2011). Giga-mapping: Visualisation for Complexity and systems thinking in design. Nordic Design Research Conference. https://archive.nordes.org/index.php/n13/article/download/104/88
Week 2: Business in history
**Chang H.J. (2014). Economics: the User’s Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press. Chapter 2-3. **Eisenstein, C. (2011). Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.
Evolver Editions. Chapter 1-3, 6.
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt: the First 5000 Years. Melville House. Chapter 1.
https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
Landes, D.S., Mokyr, J. and Baumol, W. J. eds. (2012). The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times. Princeton. Chapter 1. press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9006.pdf
鄒崇銘、韓江雪、楊夢瑩(2012). 用消費改變世界:公平貿易@新社會經濟運動 。香港: 印 象文字。上篇。(optional)
Week 3: Business and values
**Chang H.J. (2014). Economics: the User’s Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press. Chapter 5.
*Callon, M. (1998). The Laws of Markets. Wiley-Blackwell. First and last chapter. http://www.vub.ac.be/SOCO/tesa/RENCOM/Callon%20(1998)%20on%20framing%20and%20over flowing.pdf
Harrison, L. E. and Huntington, S.P. eds. (2000). Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Basic Books. Chapter 1-3, 17-19.
PolyU Library online access
鄒崇銘、韓江雪(2013). 僭建都市:從空間規劃到社區更新。香港:印象文字。第 7-9 章。 (optional)
Week 4: Standards, indicators and measurements (Part 1)
**Chang H.J. (2014). Economics: the User’s Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press. Chapter 6.
*Busch, L. (2011). Standards: Recipes for Reality. MIT Press. Chapter 4 and 5. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262016384_sch_0001.pdf PolyU Library online access
Czarniawska, B. and Sevon, G. eds.(2005). Global Ideas : How Ideas, Objects and Practices Travel in a Global Economy. Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press. Chapter 2, 3, 6 and 7.
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Stiglitz, J., Sen, A. and Fitoussi, J. P. (2009). Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/documents/rapport_anglais.pdf
韓江雪、鄒崇銘(2006). 香港的鬱悶:新生代 vs 嬰兒潮世代。香港:牛津大學出版社。第 I 部 分。(optional)
Week 5: Standards, indicators and measurements (Part 2)
**Eisenstein, C. (2011). Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Evolver Editions. Chapter 9-10.
Bauwens, M. and Pazaitis, A. (2019). P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a Socially-Just Circular Society. P2P Foundation. Chapter 1. http://commonstransition.org/p2p-accounting-for-planetary-survival/
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (n.d.). Introduction to Evaluations. Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). https://www.povertyactionlab.org/research-resources/introduction-evaluations
Eilís, L., Neitzert, E. and Nicholls, J. (2008). Measuring value: a Guide to Social Return on
Investment (SROI). New Economics Foundation. http://www.i-r-e.org/bdf/docs/a008_social-return-on-investment-sroi.pdf
韓江雪、鄒崇銘(2006). 這一代的鬱悶:從消失的香港到世代之戰。香港: 印象文字。 第 IV 部分。(optional)
Week 6: Social business
*Sum, N.L. and Jessop, B. (2013). Towards a Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy. Edward Elgar. PART III: Chapter 8-9.
PolyU Library online access
*Rivoli P. (2009). The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of the World Trade. New Jersey. Part II. http://www.books.mec.biz/downloads/The_Travels_of_a_T- Shirt_in_the_Global_Economy/MzY0NjU4NDA0 The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of the World Trade
Yunus, M. (2010) Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs. Public Affairs. Chapter 1 and 2.
PolyU Library online access
鄒崇銘、王慧麟、周嘉慧(2012). 墟.冚城市 : 在地自主經濟與良心消費。香港:在地生活 。第 I 部分。(optional)
Week 7: Green business
*Rifkin, J. (2019). The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Part I. HD9502.A2 R537 2019
*Barnes, P. (2006). Capitalism 3.0: a Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berrett- Koehler. Part II.
https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/capitalism_3.0_peter_barnes.pdf
Jackson, T. (2009). Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. London: Earthscan. Chapter 1-5.
HC79.E5 J298 2009
鄒崇銘、姚松炎(2015). 香港在地農業讀本:追尋生態、適切、低投入、社區農業。香港: 土地教育基金。Mode 1 and 3。(optional)
Week 8: Local business
*Norberg-Hodge, H. (2013). The Economics of Happiness: Discussion Guie and Companion to the Film. East Hardwick: Local Futures.
https://www.localfutures.org/wp- content/uploads/the_economics_of_happiness_discussion_guide.pdf
*Cameron, J., Healy, S., and Gibson-Graham, J. (2013). Take Back the Economy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Chapter 3-5.
PolyU Library online access
Shuman, M. (1998). Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. Free Press. Chapter 1-3.
HC110.E5 S49 1998
Florida R. (2010). The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. Harper Collins. Part III.
HC106.84 .F56 2010
鄒崇銘, 韓江雪. (2017). 城規.成虧: 《香港 2030+》的非理性亢奮. 香港: 印象文字. 第 I 部 分。(optional)
Week 9: Technology, design and ethics
**Chang H.J. (2014). Economics: the User’s Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press. Chapter 7.
*Schumacher, E. F. (1993). Small is Beautiful: a Study of Economics as if People Mattered. Vintage. Part I. http://www.daastol.com/books/Schumacher%20(1973)%20Small%20is%20Beautiful.pdf
Black, D. (2014). Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present. Farnham. Chapter 3-4.
PolyU Library online access
Felton, E., Zelenko, O. and Vaughan, S. eds. (2013). Design and Ethics: Reflections on Practice. Routledge. Chapter 11, 13-15.
PolyU Library online access
鄒崇銘、韓江雪、易汶健(2014). 以銀為本:7 評香港的產業及人口政策。香港:印象文字 。(optional)
Week 10: Technology, data and inequality
**Chang H.J. (2014). Economics: the User’s Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press. Chapter 9-10.
*Harari, Y. N. (2016). Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow. London: Harvill Secker. Chapter 9.
PolyU Library online access
*Posner, E., and Weyl, E. G. (2018). Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. Princeton University Press. Chapter 1, 4, 5.
PolyU Library online access
Ford, M. R. (2015). Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. New York : Basic Book. Chapter 1-3.
HD6331 .F58 2015
鄒崇銘、韓江雪 (2018). 後就業社會: 誰是科技貴族? 誰的人工智能? 香港: 印象文字. (optional)
鄒崇銘 (coming). 敵托邦: 貼近文明臨界點的 4 種路徑. (optional)
Week 11: Collaborative business
**Eisenstein, C. (2011). Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Evolver Editions. Chapter 11-17.
*Rifkin, J. (2000). The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience. Tarcher. Part I.
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Bauwens, M., Mendoza, N. and Iacomella, F. (2012). Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy. Orange Labs and P2P Foundation. http://p2pfoundation.net/Synthetic_Overview_of_the_Collaborative_Economy
鄒崇銘、黃英琦、阮耀啟編(2014). 共享城市:從社會企業、公平貿易、良心消費到共享經 濟(上)。香港:印象文字。第一、二章。(optional)