Right Relationship - BK Currents Book by Peter G. Brown and Geoffry Garver

RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: Building a Whole Earth Economy

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Our current economic system—which assumes endless growth and limitless potential wealth—flies in the face of the fact that the earths resources are finite. The result is increasing destruction of the natural world and growing, sometimes lethal, tension between rich and poor, global north and south. Trying to fix problems piecemeal is not the solution. We need a comprehensive new vision of an economy that can serve people and all of lifes commonwealth.

Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver use the core Quaker principle of right relationship—interacting in a way that is respectful to all and that aids the common good—as the foundation for a new economic model. Right Relationship poses five basic questions: What is an economy for? How does it work? How big is too big? Whats fair? And how can it best be governed? Brown and Garver expose the antiquated, shortsighted, and downright dangerous assumptions that underlie our current answers to these questions, as well as the shortcomings of many current reform efforts. They propose new answers that combine an acute awareness of ecological limits with a fundamental focus on fairness and a concern with the spiritual, as well as material, well-being of the human race.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Green
• earth
• business
• environment
• sustainability
• balance
• management

[scrout]

Distribution of wealth, sure.. Do you believe in the medieval warming period? Creativity of the universe flowing thru you? Religion? You guys are all over the map here.  Ugh. If all the USA disappears tomorrow, please tell us the affect on the climate.....

[jvnsva]

"Right relationship" is a powerful concept. Great to see these authors writing about it.