Urban Leadership Foundation

Readings...

During these three weeks read 200 pages from the following, adding notes to your annotated bibliography.

Patterning Global Systems on the KingdomThemes

• *Grigg, V (2010). Conversations on Kingdom Economics. (Use Guest, password: matul2010) Read the Section contrasting Capitalism and Socialism with Biblical principles. An earlier version, The Kingdom of God and Development
• Jeffrey Sachs (2005). The End of Poverty. Penguin Group. U.K.
• Rostow, W.W. (1991). The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Is Equality the Goal?

• Wilkenson, Richard, and Kate Pickett. (2009). The End of an Era. The Spirit Level. Bloomsbury Press.

Urban Economic Studies

Two must reads:

• Santos, Milton. (1979). The Financial Mechanism of the Lower Circuit. The Shared Space (trans from Portuguese, C. Gerry, Trans.). London and New York: Methuen ·
• *de Soto, Hernando. (1989). The Costs and Importance of the Law. In The Other Path (June Abbott, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row.

Supplementary Readings on Urban Economics ·

• Jacobs, Jane. (1984). Cities and the Wealth of Nations. The Atlantic Monthly (Mar/Apr 1984).
• Donald MacNeill and Aidan While. (2001). The Urban Economy. Handbook of Urban Studies. Paddison, Ronan, ed. Sage Publications.

Supplementary on thecritique of Global Capitalism ·

• Schumacher, E.F. (1973). Small is Beautiful – Economics As If People Matter, Colophon Books (Ch. III, pp.180-193)
• Korten, David (2000) Post-Capitalism_ Rise of the Collaborative Commons — Basic income — Medium, BK Currents ( Berrett-Koehler Publ.) (Ch. 18-20)

Theological Reflections

• (1990) The Oxford Declaration on Christian Faith and Economics.