The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1576756297 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 318 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pointing out the socially and ecologically destructive flaws inherent in both capitalist and socialist economies, she then asserts that our emerging global society needs a new story of what human nature and economics are and can be. Eisler delivers another impressive work that's remarkably well referenced, well argued, insightful and hopeful. . All rights reserved. She begins with her original thesis: that we inherit and inhabit a personal and social world that masculinity has built by consistently devaluing and subordinating the feminine. She offers a clearly written and compelling account of how the masculine "dominator" mentality brought us to our present juncture, and how a feminine "partnership" mentality can help us redefine key concepts such as "value" and "needs." Citing the most recent economic data and offering numerous relevant examples of places where efforts to practice a ca
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. This ""caring economics"" takes into account the full spectrum of economic activities ??? from the life-sustaining activities of the household, to the life-enriching activities of caregivers and communities of all types, to the life-supporting processes of nature. This powerful book proposes that we need a radical reformulation of economics, one that supports caring and caregiving at the individual, organizational, societal, and environment
Invaluable Seeker Business as usual and economics as usual are harmful. We've seen this recently with the economic crisis that was caused by the greed and dishonesty of the financial industry and the inability and unwillingness to usefully monitor and regulate such behavior in business. We have all been hurt by this crisis so this is a good time for us to recognize that the way the economy has been set up, and currently exists, is NOT working and to ask what radical changes can be made to improve it. This wise book is an invaluable resource for doing just . Matt Holbert said We Have To Get Beyond The Current Paradigm. I found the book to be well worth reading. It should be particularly helpful for those who have not been exposed to new economic visions.However, I feel that we must move beyond the think tank musings and into an action stage. Some of the hopeful stories that the author tells -- the working conditions at a North Carolina software company for example -- represent a form of working that will not even exist in a Peak Everything world.We have to re-invent the way that we live our daily lives and in doing so we should integrate the partnership. Outlines the problem, but not the solution Riane Eisler writes on a most important theme: She critiques economic measures (GDP, GNP) that only measure monetary transactions, but ignore important social contributions that have significant economic impact (e.g. child-rearing, as an investment in the future labor force); she then expands her critique to underlying cultural assumptions that bring about these measurements.Unfortunately, Eisler falls into the trap of repeatedly reiterating her thesis while failing to move the argument forward.For example, she promises at one point to sh