Maxton is the author of
Follies of the Western Mind, Letters from my Uncle (Arktos Books 2025), co-author with Dr Bernice Maxton-Lee of
A Chicken Can’t Lay a Duck Egg (Changemakers Books 2020) and of
Globaler Klimanotstand: Warum unser demokratisches System an seine Grenzen stößt (Komplett-Media 2020). Maxton is also the author of the German best-seller
Change! Warum wir eine radikale Wende brauchen. The book examines the link between the economic system and climate change and has also been published in English and Slovak. Maxton is the co-author with
Jorgen Randers of
Reinventing Prosperity. The book has been published in German ("
Ein Prozent ist genug", oekom 2016), Italian and Ukrainian. Maxton is the author of
The End of Progress, How Modern Economics Has Failed Us which was nominated for the
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The book has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Romanian and German (Die Wachstumslüge), where it became a Spiegel top-20 best seller. Maxton's books on the automotive industry, co-written with John Wormald, include
Time for a Model Change, which was Cambridge University Press's Feature Book of the Year in 2004 and
Driving Over a Cliff, also nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. Maxton is a regular contributor to the
South China Morning Post and a number of other online and print publications. Maxton provided the afterword for 2021 book
Wild Life about the
Victorian nature writer from
Swindon Richard Jefferies. == Bibliography ==