A review by cliffhangerbooks
Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up by Sara Horowitz

informative medium-paced

3.5

 

 have been reading several books on new economics lately, trying to better grasp what different sides of the green transition imply. I picked up “Mutualism” by impulse, as I do with so many books, so I was probably expecting something that wasn’t there. 

 

Mutualism is conceptually interesting: it is about embedding social benefit at the core of organisations and thinking of ways to be self-sustaining without compromising the values of the communities they serve. This was a particularly timely reading for me since I’m going through very similar discussions at work. 

 

I like this book, but I thought its contextualisation was too American. By this, I mean that there are assumptions of how organisms or communities work that are specific to the US and don’t have much to do with the rest of the world. But again, I liked the main takeaways, so you might enjoy the book anyway if you don’t mind that.