Economics of a crowded planet This book asks the question how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper Written mainly for a technical audience yet accessible to the lay reader Economics of a Crowded Planet addresses the ontology epistemology and methodology of a future economics as if from outside the economy looking in. It presents a conceptual framework for a future economics drawing from systems science and hierarchy theory integrating central concepts from present day economics so as to orient the field in a direction that can serve society’s future needs in practical ways. The exposition reveals a paradigm called ‘market collectivism’: the idea that the power of markets may be used to steer the economy toward a desired long term goal. Both a prescriptive doctrine and an economic methodology it treats the economy and nature as instances of complex evolutionary systems demanding analytical tools quite unlike those of the 20th century mainstream