1. Ecological Foundation

• Paul Samuelson – Economics: an Introductory Analysis, Fourteenth edition (1992, McGraw-Hill)
• Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – Energy and Economic Myths (1976, Pergamon Press)
• Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – The Entropy Law and the Economic Process(1971, Harvard University Press)
• Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – Analytical Economics (1966, Harvard University Press)
• Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – From Bioeconomics to Degrowth edited bij Mauro Bonaiuti (2011, Routledge)
• Kozo Mayumi – The Origins of Ecological Economics The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen (2001, Routledge)
• Herman Daly – For the Common Good (1989, Beacon Press)
• Herman Daly – Steady-State Economics (1977, W.H. Freeman)
• Herman Daly – Ecological Economics (1992, Island Press)
• Herman Daly & Robert Costanza – Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications (2004, Island Press)
• Robert Costanza – Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future (2014, World Scientific Publishing)
• Davide Viaggi – Handbook on the Bioeconomy (2025 Edward Elgar Publishing)
• Pushpam Kumar – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)(2010, Earthscan)
• Johan Rockström – Water Resilience for Human Prosperity (2014, Cambridge University Press)
• Johan Rockström – Breaking Boundaries (2021, Dorling Kindersley)
• Saleh El Serafy – Macroeconomics and the Environment: Essays on Green Accounting (2013, Edward Elgar Publishing)
• Peter Victor – Managing without Growth (2008, Edward Elgar Publishing)
• Janine Benyus – Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (1997, William Morrow & Co)
• Giulio Boccaletti – Water: A Biography (2021, Pantheon Books)
• Julia Martin-Ortega – Water Ecosystem Services (2015, Cambridge University Press)
• Mariana Mazzucato – The Value of Everything (2018, Allen Lane)
• Mariana Mazzucato – De Common Good Economie / The Big Con (2023, Penguin / Nieuw Amsterdam)
• Jules Pretty – Agri-culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature (2002, Earthscan)
• Hermann Scheer – Energy Autonomy (2006, Earthscan)
• Clive Hamilton & Mark Diesendorf – Human Ecology, Human Economy (1997, Allen & Unwin)
• Gretchen Daily – Nature’s Services (1997, Island Press)
• Stephen Gliessman – Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems (IV edition) (2024, CRC Press)
• Daniel Wahl – Designing Regenerative Cultures (2016, Triarchy Press)
• Thomas Lagoarde-Segot – Ecological Economics and Finance (2023, Routledge)
• Clive Spash – Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society(2017, Routledge)
• Tim Lenton – Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction (2016, Oxford University Press)
• Pablo Tittonell – A Systems Approach to Agroecology (2021, Academic Press)
• Murray Bookchin – Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future (1989, Black Rose Books)
• Vaclav Smil – How the World Really Works (2022, Viking)

2. Complexity & Systems Dynamics

• Donella Meadows – Thinking in Systems: A Primer (2008, Chelsea Green Publishing)
• David Bohm – Thought as a System (1994, Routledge)
• Peter Senge – The Fifth Discipline (1990, Doubleday)
• Otto Scharmer – Theory U (2007, Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
• Otto Scharmer – Presencing (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2025)
• Fritjof Capra – The Systems View of Life (2014, Cambridge University Press)
• Niklas Luhmann – Introduction to Systems Theory (2012, Polity)
• Niklas Luhmann – Social Systems (1995, Stanford University Press)
• Niklas Luhmann – The Reality of the Mass Media (2000, Stanford University Press)
• Brian Walker – Resilience Thinking (2006, Island Press)
• Gregory Bateson – Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972, Chandler Publishing)
• Gregory Bateson – Het verbindend patroon (Mind and Nature) (1979, Dutton / Nederlandse vertaling Ambo)
• Nora Bateson – Small Arcs of Larger Circles (2016, Triarchy Press)

3. Institutions, Power & Public Value

• Karl Polanyi – The Great Transformation (1944, Farrar & Rinehart)
• Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945, Routledge)
• Elinor Ostrom – Governing the Commons (1990, Cambridge University Press)
• Katharina Pistor – The Code of Capital (2019, Princeton University Press)
• Katharina Pistor - The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it (2025, Yale University Press)
• Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (2020, Harvard University Press)
• Adam Tooze - Crashed (2018, Allen Lane)
• Christoph Menke - Kritik der Rechte (2015, Suhrkamp Verlag)
• Dani Rodrik – The Globalization Paradox (2011, W. W. Norton & Company)
• Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson – Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012, Crown Business)
• Mark Moore – Creating Public Value (1995, Harvard University Press)
• Barry Bozeman – Public Value and Public Interest (2007, Georgetown University Press)
• Mark Granovetter – Society and Economy (2017, Harvard University Press)

4. Meaning, Dialogue & Encounter

• Hans-Georg Gadamer – Wahrheit und Methode (1960, J.C.B. Mohr)
• David Bohm – On Dialogue (1996, Routledge)
• Emmanuel Levinas – Totalité et infini: Essai sur l'extériorité (1961, Martinus Nijhoff)
• Hannah Arendt – The Human Condition (1958, University of Chicago Press)
• Jürgen Habermas – Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (1962, Hermann Luchterhand Verlag)
• Martin Buber – Ich und Du (1923, Insel Verlag)
• Martin Heidegger – Sein und Zeit (1927, Max Niemeyer Verlag)
• Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018, Polity)
• D.G. Merzel – Big Mind Big Heart (2007, Big Mind Publishing)

5. Social Change, Networks & Acceleration

• Norbert Elias – The Civilizing Process (1939, Haus zum Falken)
• Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Manuel Castells – The Rise of the Network Society (1996, Blackwell Publishers)
• Hartmut Rosa – Leven in tijden van versnelling (Social Acceleration) (2005, Suhrkamp / Nederlandse vertaling Boom)
• Zygmunt Bauman – Liquid Modernity (2000, Polity)
• Sherry Turkle – Alone Together (2011, Basic Books)
• Jean Twenge – iGen (2017, Atria Books)
• Jonathan Haidt – The Anxious Generation (2024, Penguin Press)
• Herbert Simon – Models of Bounded Rationality (1982, MIT Press)
• Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein – Nudge (2008, Yale University Press)
• Michael Sandel – What Money Can't Buy (2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Michael Sandel – The Tyranny of Merit (2020, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Deborah Chambers – Social Media and Personal Relationships (2013, Palgrave Macmillan)
• Peter Attia – Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity (2023, Harmony Books)

6. Living Environment & Social Cohesion

• Robert Putnam – Bowling Alone (2000, Simon & Schuster)
• Robert Putnam – Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (2015, Simon & Schuster)
• Ray Oldenburg – The Great Good Place (1989, Paragon House)
• Jan Gehl – Cities for People (2010, Island Press)
• Jane Jacobs – The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961, Random House)
• Carlos Moreno – The 15-Minute City (2024, Wiley)
• Richard Florida – The Rise of the Creative Class (2002, Basic Books)
• Charles Landry – The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators (2000, Earthscan)
• Pierre Bourdieu – La Distinction (1979, Les Éditions de Minuit)
• Ivan Illich – Tools for Conviviality (1973, Harper & Row)
• Mark Britnell – In Search of the Perfect Health System (2015, Palgrave Macmillan)

7. Strategy, Value Creation & Reflective Practice

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Antifragile (2012, Random House)
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swan (2007, Random House)
• Michael Porter – Competitive Advantage (1985, Free Press)
• Michael Porter – Competitive Strategy (1980, Free Press)
• Henry Mintzberg – The Structuring of Organizations (1979, Prentice-Hall)
• Henry Mintzberg & James Brian Quinn – The Strategy Process (1988, Prentice-Hall)
• Philip Kotler & Kevin Keller – Marketing Management (2015 Pearson Education Ltd)
• Tim Koller – Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (1990, John Wiley & Sons)
• Noriaki Kano – Kano Model (1984, Gepubliceerd als paper: "Attractive Quality and Must-be Quality" in het tijdschrift Quality, JSQC)
• C.M. Storm – Relatie, reputatie, ruil: inleiding in de public relations (1987, Kluwer)
• Clayton Christensen – Het innovatiedilemma (The Innovator's Dilemma) (1997, Harvard Business Review Press)
• Donald Schön – The Reflective Practitioner (1983, Basic Books)
• Michael Polanyi – The Tacit Dimension (1966, Doubleday & Co)