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Real Wealth of Nations Creating a Caring Economics

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ISBN-10: 1576756297

ISBN-13: 9781576756294

Edition: 2008

Authors: Riane. Eisler

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The great problems of our time ??? such as poverty, inequality, war, terrorism, and environmental degradation ??? are due in part to our flawed economic models that set the wrong priorities and misallocate resources. Conventional economic measures, policies, and practices fail to give visibility and value to the most essential human work ??? the work of caring and caregiving. This powerful book proposes that we need a radical reformulation of economics, one that supports caring and caregiving at the individual, organizational, societal, and environmental levels. This "caring economics" takes into account the full spectrum of economic activities ??? from the life-sustaining activities of the…    
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Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Riane Eisler is an internationally acclaimed scholar, futurist, and activist, and is codirector of the Center for Partnership Studies in Pacific Grove, California. She is the author of Sacred Pleasure and The Partnership Way.

Introduction: Reasons to Care
We Need a New Economics
Economics Through a Wider Lens
It Pays to Care-in Dollars and Cents
The Economic Double Standard
Connecting the Dots
The Economics of Domination
The Economics of Partnership
Technology, Work, and the Postindustrial Era
Who We Are and Where We Are
The Caring Revolution
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
About the Center for Partnership Studies