Economics & Relationships
Relationships are critical to the development of a new theory and story for economics. Focusing on relationships can help us see what holds us back and what’s needed to move forward. ~ Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
The Full Spectrum of Economic Sectors
Partnership economics revisions economic theory and policy-making to include the full spectrum of economic sectors: the household economy, the unpaid community economy, the market economy, the illegal economy, the government economy, and the natural economy.
Economic Institutions
Unlike houses, machines, and other material structures, businesses, governments, and families are living structures. These structures aren’t held together by mortars or screws and bolts. They’re held together by habits of thinking and acting and by the stories and rules that mold these habits. ~ Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
Creating Global Public Goods
Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc Stern, as well as a number of well known economists, including Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz, have proposed a new concept that can help promote human security, survival, and development: what they call “global public goods.”
Time Dollars
An economic invention that gives value to caring and caregiving in the community economy.
