Stories by Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is an essayist and author of the books Sacred Economics and The Ascent of Humanity. He is a contributor to Shareable, where this article first appeared.subscribe to Charles Eisenstein's rss feed

Re-Thinking Money: Is Real Wealth Currency? Debt? Or Community?

Posted on Mar 14, 2012, Source: Shareable

Our capital-based economy isn't working. David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years explains why, and points to what real wealth might look like.

Can Gift Exchange Fix the Problems of Capitalism and Rebuild our Lost Community?

Posted on Jan 1, 2012, Source: Shareable

The reclamation of the gift-based commonwealth not only hastens the collapse of a growth-dependent money system, it also mitigates its severity.

Occupy Wall Street: No Demand is Big Enough

Posted on Oct 30, 2011, Source: Reality Sandwich

Occupy Wall Street should not be content with half-measures, even as it encourages and applauds the tiny hundredth-measures that might come first.
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