Plenty Good Room lays out a more hopeful approach to economics – one of ‘enough’ for everyone. In a world ravaged by capitalism, this approach offers plenty good room – not just for a few, but for all.
Share tools, cars and homes cuts waste. Repairing goods and passing things on reduces rubbish. Libraries, swap events and repair cafés help.
In a world ravaged by intensifying social justice and capitalism, this is a form of economics that works for everyone, not just a few. Capitalism does not work: it creates an uneven balance of power, constrains life chances and limits imaginations. It’s unkind and boring. It only benefits owners and investors.
This American book suggest an alternative to way to organise our life – as ‘homegrown as sweet potato pie!’ What if we could become moral engineers of the world we create? And challenge conventional greed, inequality and capitalism?
Drawing on the threads of history and Scripture, this book is also inspired by black radicals like Dr Martin Luther King Jr, pointing to how often it’s people in the Black Christian movement, who began these kind of changes. Which can permeate out towards a wider society.
Wilkes offers the biblical and theological foundations for economic democracy. He demonstrates that there is no distance between Jesus and justice. In fact, it’s what God requires and what all people of conscience must make real. Rev Dr Liz Theoharis
About the Author
Rev. Andrew Wilkes PhD is co-pastor of the wonderfully-named Double Love Experience Church in Brookyln, New York. Married to a fellow pastor, they regular use their voices to write for black social justice. He is a graduate of Hampton University and Princeton Theological Seminary.
