Sacred Economics: Chapter 23, A New Materialism (Pt. 24)

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Most of this book has been about money, which is the usual subject of
“economics” today. On a deeper level, though, economics should be about things, specifically the things that human beings create, why they create them, who gets to use them, and how they circulate.

Sacred Economics: Chapter 11, Currencies of the Commons (Pt. 12)

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The metamorphosis of human economy that is underway in our time will go
more deeply than the Marxist revolution because the Story of the People
that it weaves won’t be just a new fiction of ownership, but a
recognition of its fictive, conventional nature.

Sacred Economics: Chapter 3, “Money and the Mind” (Pt. 4)

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Money is woven into our minds, our perceptions, our identities. That is
why, when a crisis of money strikes, it seems that the fabric of
reality is unraveling, too—that the very world is falling apart. Yet
this is also cause for great optimism, because money is a social
construction that we have the power to change. What new kinds of
perceptions, and what new kinds of collective actions, would accompany a
new kind of money?  – The fourth installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.

Sacred Economics: Chapter 2, “The Illusion of Scarcity” (Pt. 3)

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Why should money be the root of all evil? After all, the purpose of money is, at its most basic, simply to facilitate exchange — in other words, to connect human gifts with human needs. What power, what monstrous perversion, has turned money into the opposite: an agent of scarcity?
– The third installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.

Sacred Economics: Chapter 1, “The Gift World” (Pt. 2)

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My intention is that by identifying the core features of the economics
of Separation, we may be empowered to envision an economics of Reunion, an economics that restores to wholeness our fractured
communities, relationships, cultures, ecosystems, and planet. – The second installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.

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