num_pages: 469
description: Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation competition and scarcity destroyed community and necessitated endless growth. Today these trends have reached their extremebut in the wake of their collapse we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected ecological and sustainable way of being. This book is about how the money system will have to changeand is already changingto embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of theory policy and practice Sacred Economics explores avant-garde concepts of the New Economics including negative-interest currencies local currencies resource-based economics gift economies and the restoration of the commons. Author Charles Eisenstein also considers the personal dimensions of this transition speaking to those concerned with right livelihood and how to live according to their ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought Sacred Economics presents a vision that is original yet commonsense radical yet gentle and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.Sacred Economics official website: http://sacred-economics.com/About the Imprint: EVOLVER EDITIONS promotes a new counterculture that recognizes humanity's visionary potential and takes tangible pragmatic steps to realize it. EVOLVER EDITIONS explores the dynamics of personal collective and global change from a wide range of perspectives. EVOLVER EDITIONS is an imprint of North Atlantic Books and is produced in collaboration with Evolver LLC.
language: English
title: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
publisher: North Atlantic Books