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Sacred Economics
- Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Money & Finance, Economics
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Publisher's Summary
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity; destroyed community; and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
This book is about how the money system will have to change - and is already changing - to embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and practice, Sacred Economics explores avant-garde concepts of the New Economics, including negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Author Charles Eisenstein also considers the personal dimensions of this transition, speaking to those concerned with "right livelihood" and how to live according to their ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. Tapping in to a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Sacred Economics presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.
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- Fiona
- 25-07-2022
Life changing
Helped me to understand money from a spiritual and deep ecology perspective, and paves the way for a new relationship to money and each other. Thank you, Charles Eisenstein.
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- Amy Leathem
- 11-02-2021
Life changing
This book changed my life. The only downside is realising we’re living in the wrong dimension. Absolutely inspiring
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- Brad
- 16-08-2019
hope for the future
this was a great book that made me smile alot in a time which is weighed down with doom n gloom alot, some sections went a bit over my head with technical details of economic systems however the overalll philosophy was very clear. I'm sure the more detailed sections ate very necessary to answer the more technical questions I'm sure some people have about the systems.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-03-2019
Insightful and enlightening. Very well thought out and written
This is an amazing book. It gave me a lot of hope and inspiration. Eisenstein has crafted a seminal text and it has changed my whole outlook on life. I have much gratitude to him for this gift to the world. A must read.
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- Simone
- 09-04-2018
Serious food for thought
This book resonated with me and got me thinking. The content and concepts are substantial. It’s quite academic so it was a little tough to get into at first, and the constant footnotes interrupted the flow for me. I probably absorbed about 20% but eve that was worth it and at some point I’d like to skim through the hard copy and highlight the key ideas for me (you can download the book for free from the author’s website). Looking forward to diving into The Yoga of Eating next.
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- Christian Dockstader
- 06-02-2020
Mind Blown
As someone who is opening a business and testing out the world of entrepreneurship for the first time, this book was exactly what I needed to hear. Eisenstein doesn’t just deconstruct everything wrong with our economy and paradigm towards money today, but he also paints a beautiful picture of a future gift economy full of meaning and connectedness.
I highly recommend this book. It’s very academic and I found myself rewinding and listening to parts for a second or even third time to try and grasp it, but it is also very poetic and beautifully written. I’ll let it sit with me for a while but I’ll definitely be reading this one again. It strikes me as one of those classics that you get more and more from each time you read it.
To the author: Charles, you’ve done a great service to us all for writing this book and for all the other masterful works you have produced. If you are reading this, know that you have touched my life and sparked something magical within me. I hope to be show my gratitude by paying this invaluable gift forward to others and living in the gift.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-08-2020
Incredible message, horrible narration
The narrator, Steve, is so incredibly bad that it makes this intellectually dense book even harder to understand. He pauses in the middle of sentences and emphasizes the wrong words; it’s like he’s reading with no comprehension. On top of that, he sounds like an incredibly condescending white man. The sound of his voice is the sound of mansplaining. And he sounds very nerdy (in a bad way— I myself am a nerd— but this man sounds like a hateful nerd who is being rude to you with every sentence he utters. It is not even remotely like the actual voice of the author.
That being said, the content of the book is incredible. I wish everyone would read it. I wish the world would be as Eisenstein envisions it. However, I cannot recommend this audiobook to any friends because everyone hates the narrator so much. It’s quite a waste of an extremely well thought out treatise on economics.
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- AlohaPavers
- 13-02-2021
Absolutely Beautiful
This book is amazing.
Much easier to listen to, rewind, take notes, digest, discuss, come back to, analyze, reflect on, and get through than reading it alone. Although, you may want to purchase a copy as well for highlighting, note taking, sharing, and recovery purposes.
This should be required reading (or listening) for all human beings on this planet.
Thank you Charles Eisenstein for this beautiful gift.
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- Alvaro C.
- 12-02-2021
inspiring and revolutionary
As usual, revolutionary and inspiring. best experience if you understand banking , financies and economics. would have liked to here him now discuss crypto
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- Karin Seabert Olsen
- 20-05-2020
Everybody needs to hear this. Please share widely.
humanity needs to think differently. we need to transition out if a capitalist society.
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- FunkTastic and Snuggy
- 03-08-2018
A better works for all
This is a must read for all humanity. When we all honor each other and our planet we will all be rich.
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- SW
- 26-06-2022
Disconnected from reality
This book has no connection to economic reality. This book might as well be a work of utopian fiction. The author has no background in economics at all and presents pseudoscience throughout the book. This kind of information is harmful to spread, yet he does it anyway because it makes him feel good about himself. The kind of command economy and totalitarian state required to implement these ideas is frightening. A dangerous book to people who have no prior knowledge about economics. If you want a worthwhile book of similar length, read Capitalism in America: A History.
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- Michael Warnock
- 17-05-2022
This book changed my life
My gratitude can only be fully expressed by a (sacred) book of my own: working on opening myself up to it :)
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- Anonymous User
- 20-03-2022
From unholy economics to the sacred, Yes!
Thank you Sir for showing us the way out of this unholy economics that theatens all. This is as it will be. It's only those that won't consider the possibility that will delay the implementation.
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- S. Jacobson
- 12-01-2022
Unfortunately qanon
Would love my money back, but I also think compassion for these people in thrall into some very bizarre conspiracy thinking
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- Barry Holmes
- 06-07-2019
Deeply inspiring, relevent and brave
This book along with a more beautiful world your heart knows is possible are the andedotes to the underlying message of Sapiens and Homo Deus...
It is not inevitable that our move to a more disconnected, technology dependant, nature destroying world waiting to be saved by from the 'bad people' (anyone different from us) is true. My heart lifted listening and reading these books... the stirring of knowing that which is untrue has be met by a truly beautiful version of what is possible....thank you much...I can feel the pull to contribute
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- Keoma
- 30-10-2017
incredible book
Offers hope for an age of integration, fusing materialism with spirituality. Excellent book; warm in vision and sturdy in economic theory.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-2021
Great vision of what could be.
Practical outline of a utopian economic system based on life not the cold dead hand of the neoliberal free-market. I could of done with a slightly better knowledge of economics for some bits but it was explained in a simple way I could understand.
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- Paul
- 26-04-2021
Awful
Terribly difficult to listen to because of the tiny accent. Makes the whole thing grating.
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