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Sacred Economics

Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

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Sacred Economics

By: Charles Eisenstein
Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
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 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 extreme—but 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 change—and is already changing—to 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.

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This book along with a more beautiful world your heart knows is possible are the andedotes to the underlying message of Sapiens and Homo Deus...
It is not inevitable that our move to a more disconnected, technology dependant, nature destroying world waiting to be saved by from the 'bad people' (anyone different from us) is true. My heart lifted listening and reading these books... the stirring of knowing that which is untrue has be met by a truly beautiful version of what is possible....thank you much...I can feel the pull to contribute

Deeply inspiring, relevent and brave

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Practical outline of a utopian economic system based on life not the cold dead hand of the neoliberal free-market. I could of done with a slightly better knowledge of economics for some bits but it was explained in a simple way I could understand.

Great vision of what could be.

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Offers hope for an age of integration, fusing materialism with spirituality. Excellent book; warm in vision and sturdy in economic theory.

incredible book

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His truth shines out in all the fields of debate he partakes of..this however is his specialty and the masterwork to understand the true way money, energy and the human endeavour interact.

Charles Eisenstein is the foremost philosopher of our time.. his thinking actually has the seed we all need.

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Narrator was clear and coherant, love that this book is a part of the gift economy!

The level of work it must've taken to create this

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