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Independence and Cooperation

The Threefold Social Organism

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Crucial Questions Question 1 What has gone wrong in modern societies so that they cause more sickness and are 400 times more deadly than all the wars put together? Where do we find the systemic causes? Question 2 What has gone wrong, so that scandalous forms of work like forced labor or bullshit jobs occur to the extent that they do? What are the systemic causes? Where are the deeper roots to be ... Read more

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Crucial Questions Question 1 What has gone wrong in modern societies so that they cause more sickness and are 400 times more deadly than all the wars put together? Where do we find the systemic causes? Question 2 What has gone wrong, so that scandalous forms of work like forced labor or bullshit jobs occur to the extent that they do? What are the systemic causes? Where are the deeper roots to be
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Sacred Economics, Revised

Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition

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Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy.This revised version traces the history of money, from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, and includes new material on cryptocurrencies and emerging research that has come out since the book's original publication. CharlesEisenstein shows how capitalism contributes to alienation, ... Read more

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Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy.This revised version traces the history of money, from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, and includes new material on cryptocurrencies and emerging research that has come out since the book's original publication. CharlesEisenstein shows how capitalism contributes to alienation,
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Moral Mazes

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This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. What sort of everyday rules-in-use do ... Read more

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Fair Economics

Nature, money and people beyond neoclassical thinking

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Have you ever questioned our economic model? Wondered how the financial crash was able to happen? Thought about what we can do stop it happening again?Modern economics bases its view of the world on assumptions Adam Smith made about nature and people nearly three hundred years ago, in a time when people travelled by horse and carriage and wrote by the light of candles. We now live in a globally ... Read more

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Confronting Managerialism

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Society of Fear

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From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects in jeopardy. We are overwhelmed by a sense of having been catapulted into a world to which we no longer belong.Tracing this ... Read more

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Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discovers a forgotten clause that allows them to take 240,000 homes back from multi-billion corporations. In this work of creative non-fiction, scholar-activist and Nine Dots Prize winner Joanna Kusiak tells the story of a grassroots movement that convinced a million Berliners to pop the speculative housing bubble. She ... Read more

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The Seven Secrets of Germany

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