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Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy. This revised version traces the history of money, from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, and includes new material on cryptocurrencies and emerging research that has come out since the book's original publication. Charles Eisenstein shows how capitalism contributes to alienation, competition, and scarcity; destroys community; and necessitates endless growth at the cost of social and environmental devastation. Today, these trends have reached their extreme--and their collapse presents a golden opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being. Eisenstein describes the deeper narratives beneath our economic system, and how we can reimagine it to align with a new story. Applying a broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and practice, he explores avant-garde concepts of the New Economics, including negative-interest currencies, local economies, gift economics, cryptocurrencies, and the restoration of the commons. Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Eisenstein presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

The author of Punished by Rewards and The Schools Our Children Deserve returns with a provocative challenge to the conventional ways of raising children. Kohn argues that all children have the need to be loved unconditionally, yet conventional approaches to parenting, such as punishment and reward, teach children that they are loved only when they please and impress parents. Kohn cites powerful research detailing the damage this can cause. Unconditional Parenting pushes parents to question their ideas of parenting and offers practical solutions to problems.

Pred piatimi rokmi Francis Fukuyama napísal, že americké inštitúcie upadajú, pretože ich stále viac ovládajú silné záujmové skupiny. O dva roky sa jeho predpoveď vyplnila, keď sa k moci dostali viacerí politickí outsideri, ktorých ekonomický nacionalizmus a autoritárske sklony ohrozujú celý svetový poriadok. Nacionalistickí populisti vsadili na charizmatické prepojenie s „ľudom“. Pracujú s úzkym chápaním identity, čo ľudí ženie do uzavretých skupín, ktoré vylučujú všetkých ostatných. Univerzálne uznanie rovnosti, ktoré je základom liberálnej demokracie, stále častejšie spochybňujú užšími podobami uznania, založenými napríklad na národe, náboženstve alebo rase. Vyústilo to do vlny protiimigrantského populizmu, spolitizovaného islamu či bieleho nacionalizmu. Fukuyama napísal aktuálnu a dôležitú knihu – vážne varovanie, že ak nevytvoríme univerzálne chápanie ľudskej dôstojnosti, odsúdime sa na nepretržitý konflikt.