"Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the m
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English Year 2011
Table of contents :
I: The economics of separation --
The gift world --
The illusion of scarcity --
Money and the mind --
The trouble with property --
The corpse of the commons --
The economics of usury --
The crisis of civilization --
The turning of the age --
II: The economics of reunion --
The story of value --
The law of return --
Currencies of the commons --
Negative-interest economics --
Steady-state and degrowth economics --
The social dividend --
Local and complementary currency --
Transition to gift economy --
Summary and roadmap --
III: Living the new economy --
Relearning gift culture --
Nonaccumulation --
Right livelihood and sacred investing --
Working in the gift --
community and the unquantifiable --
A new materialism --
Conclusion: The more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.