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Cover Page Title Page Copyright page Contents List of Figures About the Authors Acknowledgements Prologue PART 1 ORIENTATION

Chapter 1 Re-inventing Economics

1.1 Introduction: Is there an Alternative to the Western Mainstream? 1.2 Towards an Integral Economic Perspective 1.3 Releasing Economic Gene-ius 1.4 Conclusion: Moral Core to Living Economy References

Chapter 2 Revisiting Mainstream Economics

2.1 Introduction: The Development of Economic Analysis 2.2 Economics of Self-Sufficiency: Stone Age Economics to Aristotle’s Autarky 2.3 Developmental Economics: Historicism to Marxism 2.4 The Rise and Fall of Social Economics: J.S. Mill, Institutionalism, Marginalism 2.5 Neoliberalism to Living Economics: Smith, Keynes, Daly 2.6 Conclusion: Towards Economic Renewal References

PART 2 INSPIRATION

Chapter 3 The Moral Economic Core

3.1 Introduction: The Protestant Ethic as Western Moral Core 3.2 Indigenous Moral Core: First Nation People 3.3 Eastern Moral Core: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian 3.4 Northern Moral Core: Catholicism to Distributivism 3.5 Enriched Protestant Moral Core: Quaker, New Reformation 3.6 A Middle Eastern Moral Core: Islam 3.7 Conclusion: Revitalizing the Moral Economic Core References

Chapter 4 The Centered Enterprise

4.1 Introduction: Sekem – Revitalizing Islamic Economics 4.2 Self-Sufficiency: A Sustainable Community in the Desert 4.3 Developmental: A Fusion of the Occident and the Orient 4.4 Social: The Economics of Love 4.5 Living: Ultimately Restoring the Earth 4.6 Conclusion: Releasing Sekem’s Gene-ius References

PART 3 TRANSFORMATION

Chapter 5 Economic Commons

5.1 Introduction: Community and Economics 5.2 Revisiting the Co-production of Livelihoods 5.3 Social Production: A Critical Review 5.4 African Economic Humanism 5.5 Conclusion: Economic Humanism and the Economic Commons References

Chapter 6 Grassroots Economics

6.1 Introduction: Community, Culture and Economics 6.2 Culture and Community: A (Not Only) Mexican Perspective 6.3 From Parochial Universe to Global Pluriverse 6.4 From Pluriverse to Earth Democracy 6.5 Conclusion: Economics from the Grassroots References

Chapter 7 Subsistence Economics

7.1 Introduction: Beyond Efficiency – Towards Sufficiency 7.2 From Sufficiency to Subsistence 7.3 Subsistence, Markets and Globalization 7.4 Subsistence and the Commons 7.5 From Labor to Work and Fulfillment 7.6 Conclusion: Sufficiency and Subsistence References

Chapter 8 The Social Business

8.1 Introduction: Grameen – A Bank for the Poor 8.2 Starting the Economic Engine at the Rear 8.3 The Global Reach of Grameen’s Micro-Credit Approach 8.4 Building a Self-Sufficient Economy: From Grameen Bank to Grameen Phone 8.5 Towards the Social Business 8.6 Conclusion: Creating a World without Poverty References

Chapter 9 Co-evolutionary Economics

9.1 Introduction: Economics and Culture 9.2 Development Revisited: The Illusions of Progress 9.3 Towards Co-Evolutionary Economics 9.4 Conclusion: Re-Culturalization and the Economic Mosaic References

Chapter 10 Conscious Economics

10.1 Introduction: Economics and Wholeness 10.2 Levels of Consciousness 10.3 The Economics of Health, Beauty and Permanence 10.4 Aiming for Right Livelihood 10.5 Education, Organization and Discipline 10.6 Conclusion: The Necessary Shift in Economic Consciousness References

Chapter 11 Associative Economics

11.1 Introduction: Culture, Politics and Economics 11.2 The Nature and Scope of the Threefold Commonwealth 11.3 The Liberation of Capital 11.4 The Capital Economy 11.5 The Metamorphosis of Capitalism 11.6 Conclusion: Taking Humanity Beyond the Market References

Chapter 12 The Developmental Enterprise

12.1 Introduction: Canon – Linking Business and Consciousness 12.2 Spirit, Heart, Mind and Body of Canon 12.3 Towards Co-Evolution at Canon 12.4 Conclusion: Beyond the Japanese Economic Miracle References

Chapter 13 Economics of the Common Good

13.1 Introduction: Re-interpreting Adam Smith 13.2 Sismondi’s New Principles 13.3 John Hobson and the Economics of Social Reform 13.4 The Advent of Humanistic Economics 13.5 Conclusion: Towards an Economics of the Common Good References

Chapter 14 Social Learning and the Network Economy

14.1 Introduction: From Limits to Growth to No Limits to Learning 14.2 Network Society and Information Economy 14.3 Overcoming Social Under-Development 14.4 Conclusion: Multifaceted Journey Towards A Social Economy References

Chapter 15 Open Economics

15.1 Introduction: Economics in an Open Society 15.2 Society and Economy Open for Improvement: The Case of India 15.3 Economies in an Open Society 15.4 Conclusion: The Future is Cooperative References

Chapter 16 The Cooperative Enterprise

16.1 Introduction: Mondragon – Humanity at Work 16.2 Origins and Philosophical Foundation of Mondragon 16.3 Building on Basque Culture and Context 16.4 The Development of Mondragon 16.5 Organizational Culture and Cooperative Knowledge 16.6 Conclusion: Cooperative Remaking of Economics References

Chapter 17 New Economics

17.1 Introduction: Re-Grounding the West, from Within 17.2 The Need for a New Economics 17.3 New Economic Theory: Putting People First 17.4 Revisiting the Nature of Work: Towards ‘Own Work’ 17.5 Constructing the Antithesis to the Growth Economy 17.6 Conclusion: New Economics to a New Economic Agenda References

Chapter 18 Real Economics

18.1 Introduction: A New Economic Map, Agenda and Practice 18.2 Caring Economics: From Domination to Partnership 18.3 Wall Street’s Phantom Wealth versus Main Street’s Real Wealth 18.4 Agenda for a Real Economy 18.5 Transforming Money: Towards a New Integral Money System 18.6 Conclusion: From Real Wealth to New Wealth Measurement References

Chapter 19 Well-being Economics

19.1 Introduction: Towards Genuine Wealth 19.2 What’s Wrong with the Picture of Progress? From GDP to GPI 19.3 The Genuine Wealth Model 19.4 The Genuine Wealth of Communities and Nations 19.5 Conclusion: Towards Sustainable Development References

Chapter 20 The Sustainable Enterprise

20.1 Introduction: Interface – Giving Back to the Earth 20.2 Ecosense: The Ecology of Commerce 20.3 The Transformation of Interface 20.4 The Sustainable Enterprise of the Next Industrial Revolution 20.5 Towards the Global Benefit of the Sustainable Enterprise 20.6 Conclusion: The Sustainable Enterprise as Part of a Global Movement for Life References

PART 4 INTEGRATION

Chapter 21 The Integral Economy

21.1 Introduction: Activating Economic Gene-ius 21.2 The Four Economic Paths of the Integral Economy 21.3 A New Integral Economic Map 21.4 Conclusion: The Fully Integral Economy – Integrating Four Worlds and Center References

Chapter 22 Co-creating the Future

22.1 Introduction: Five Core Success Factors for Releasing Economic Gene-ius 22.2 Catalyze Economic Gene-ius via Integral Economy Laboratories 22.3 Commit to a Burning Issue, Relevant Economic Path and Moral Core 22.4 Maintain Interconnected Focus: Middle-Up-Down-Across 22.5 Build an Integral Economic Ecosystem 22.6 Link Up with a Movement 22.7 Conclusion: The Future is Integral – Let’s Make it Happen References

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