Our Brutal Economic Inheritance
We’re taught to idealize our heritage from Ancient Greece. There are certainly wonderful aspects of this old Western civilization that we should cherish. On the other hand, there was also a darker side of this much extolled society that becomes evident once we look at Athenian economics. ~ Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
Perpetuating Global Hunger & Poverty
Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty ~ Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
The Economics of the Household
The economics of the household are still generally ignored in conventional analyses. The household is viewed as a unit of either production or consumption, rather than as a microcosm of the larger economic and political system. As a result, most analyses don’t take into account intra-household resource allocation. ~ Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
Artificially Creating Scarcity
Probably the most inefficient and destructive aspect of dominator economics and politics is that they artificially produce scarcity. ~ Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
The Conquest of Nature
Almost every day another study details the insanity of our present course. But so deeply embedded in our economic models, policies, and practices are the old habits of domination and exploitation, that these warnings go largely unheeded . . . Yet none of this is inevitable. It can be changed. ~ Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
