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Books, articles and websites that might be of interest are given below. Suggestions from site visitors for further additions to the list are most welcome.

Websites:

www.Inequality.org 

The Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD) in Lima, Peru: www.ild.org.pe

Complexity International (ISSN 1320-0682): www.csu.edu.au/ci/

Department for International Development: www.dfid.gov.uk

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: www.sipri.se

Future of Iraq Project (detailed planning for post-war Iraq produced in 2002 and then totally ignored): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB198/index.htm

 

Publications:

Adams, P. (1991) Odious Debts, London: Earthscan.

Armstrong, K. (9th impression 2004) Islam, London: Phoenix.

Baker R W et.al. (editors) (2010) Cultural Cleansing in Iraq, PlutoPress.

Beinhocker, E. D. (2007) The Origin of Wealth, London: Random House.

Blum, W. (2001) Rogue State, London: Zed Books.

Burke, J. 2004) Al-Qaeda, London: Penguin Books.

Chang, Ha-Joon (2008) Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, New York: Bloomsbury Press.

Chapman, J. (2002) System Failure, London: DEMOS.

Comeliau, C. (2002) The Impasse of Modernity, London: Zed Books.

De Soto, H. (2000) The Mystery of Capital, London: Bantam Press.

Easterly, W. (2001) The Elusive Quest for Growth, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1999, first published in 1971) The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Herman, E. S. and N. Chomsky (1994) Manufacturing Consent, London: Vintage.

Hertz, N. (2001) The Silent Takeover, London: Heinemann.

Holt, T. A., Ed., (2004) Complexity for Clinicians, London: Radcliffe Publishing.

Hoogvelt, A. (2001) Globalization and the Postcolonial World, Basingstoke: Palgarve.

Jervis, R. (1999) Systems Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Kauffman, S. (1996) At Home in the Universe: the Search for Laws of Complexity, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kernick, D. (ed.) (2004) Complexity and Healthcare Organisation, Oxford: Radcliffe.

Klein, N. (2007) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, London: Allen Lane.

Kuhn, T. S. (1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago and London: University of Chicago.

Lweis, B. (2003) The Crisis of Islam, London: Phoenix.

Madron, R. and J. Jopling (2003) Gaian Democracies, Totnes, Devon: Green Books (for The Schumacher Society).

Marshall, S. (2007) Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, New York: The Disinformation Company.

Packer, G (2006) The Assassins' Gate, London: Faber and Faber.

Perkins, J. (2004) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publications.

Phillips, D. L. (2005) Losing Iraq, Westview Press.

Pilger, J. (1998) Hidden Agendas, London: Vintage.

Shutt, H. (2001) A New Democracy, London: Zed Books.

Simons, G (1998) The Scourging of Iraq, London: Macmillan.

Simons, T. W. (2003) Islam in a Globalising World, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Soros, G. (1998) The Crisis of Global Capitalism, London: Little, Brown and Company.

Stiglitz, J. and L. Blimes (2008) The Three Trillion Dollar War, London: Allen Lane.

Sweeney, K and Griffiths, F. (2002) Complexity and Healthcare, London: Radcliffe Publishing.

UNDP, (2002) The Arab Human Development Report, New York: UNDP. Two further reports (2003 and 2004) have now been published.

Zunes, S. (2003) Tinderbox, London: Zed Books (and Common Courage Press, Monroe, ME, for North American readers).