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Introduction | p. xi |
The Economics Of Separation | p. 1 |
The Gift World | p. 3 |
The Illusion of Scarcity | p. 19 |
Money and the Mind | p. 33 |
The Trouble with Property | p. 49 |
The Corpse of the Commons | p. 69 |
Cultural and Spiritual Capital | p. 70 |
The Strip-Mining of Community | p. 75 |
The Creation of Needs | p. 79 |
The Money Power | p. 88 |
The Economics of Usury | p. 93 |
An Economic Parable | p. 95 |
The Growth Imperative | p. 100 |
The Concentration of Wealth | p. 104 |
Wealth Redistribution and Class War | p. 111 |
Inflation | p. 117 |
More for You Is Less for Me | p. 121 |
The Crisis of Civilization | p. 125 |
The Turning of the Age | p. 141 |
Money: Story and Magic | p. 141 |
Humanity's Coming-of-Age Ordeal | p. 148 |
The Economics Of Reunion | p. 157 |
The Story of Value | p. 159 |
The Law of Return | p. 173 |
Currencies of the Commons | p. 185 |
Negative-Interest Economics | p. 203 |
History and Background | p. 206 |
Modern Application and Theory | p. 214 |
The Debt Crisis: Opportunity for Transition | p. 228 |
Thinking for the Future | p. 231 |
More for Me Is More for You | p. 242 |
Steady-State and Degrowth Economics | p. 249 |
Sustainability Reconsidered | p. 249 |
Transition to Steady-State: Bump or Crash? | p. 252 |
Shrinking Money, Growing Wealth | p. 258 |
Disintermediation and the P2P Revolution | p. 262 |
The Social Dividend | p. 267 |
The Paradox of Leisure | p. 267 |
The Obsolescence of "Jobs" | p. 272 |
The Will to Work | p. 277 |
Who Shall Remove the Garbage? | p. 283 |
Local and Complementary Currency | p. 291 |
The Catch-22 of Local Currency | p. 294 |
Experiments in Local Money | p. 303 |
Reclaiming the Credit Commons | p. 308 |
Transition to Gift Economy | p. 317 |
Summary and Roadmap | p. 331 |
Negative-Interest Currency | p. 332 |
Elimination of Economic Rents, and Compensation for Depletion of the Commons | p. 334 |
Internalization of Social and Environmental Costs | p. 336 |
Economic and Monetary Localization | p. 338 |
The Social Dividend | p. 340 |
Economic Degrowth | p. 342 |
Gift Culture and P2P Economics | p. 344 |
Living The New Economy | p. 347 |
Relearning Gift Culture | p. 349 |
Nonaccurnulation | p. 365 |
Right Livelihood and Sacred Investing | p. 379 |
The Dharma of Wealth | p. 379 |
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul | p. 382 |
Old Accumulations to New Purposes | p. 390 |
Right Livelihood | p. 396 |
Working in the Gift | p. 401 |
Trusting Gratitude | p. 401 |
Business in the Gift | p. 406 |
The Sacred Professions | p. 412 |
Community and the Unquantifiable | p. 419 |
A New Materialism | p. 427 |
Conclusion: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Tell Us Is Possible | p. 437 |
Appendix: Quantum Money and the Reserve Question | p. 447 |
Bibliography | p. 459 |
Index | p. 465 |
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