Rich Burkmar

An economically curious ecologist

Category: book review

The books reviewed here are mostly relevant to the relationship between ecology and economics. Consequently many of them are inspired by the field of ecological economics and relate, in particular, to post-growth or ‘degrowth’ economics. But I will also include books outside that immediate area if they relate to it is some way.

The New Enclosure – The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain

January 29, 2023

Chistophers, B. The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain. (Verso Books, 2019). The word enclosure in the title of this book drew me in as soon as I laid eyes on it. Back in 1981 when I was a fresh-faced zoology undergraduate, I bought the recently published book The Theft of…
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Category: book review

The New Enclosure – The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain