Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition

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Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein’s classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy.
This revised version traces the history of money, from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, and includes new material on cryptocurrencies and emerging research that has come out since the book’s original publication. Charles
Eisenstein shows how capitalism contributes to alienation, competition, and scarcity; destroys community; and necessitates endless growth at the cost of social and environmental devastation. Today, these trends have reached their extreme–and their collapse presents a golden opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
Eisenstein describes the deeper narratives beneath our economic system, and how we can reimagine it to align with a new story. Applying a broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and practice, he explores avant-garde concepts of the New Economics, including negative-interest currencies, local economies, gift economics, cryptocurrencies, and the restoration of the commons. Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Eisenstein presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

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—PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION of SACRED ECONOMICS—

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B088QLDG23
Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 16, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1.6 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 437 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1623175771
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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