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Deep Economy

The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

By Bill McKibben

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“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case fContinue

“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. Our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value, McKibben argues, and the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.

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  • Be My Neighbor

    Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim (in “Slaughterhouse-Five”) had a famous dream in which the film of time ran backward: bombs re-coalesced, sucking their exploding fire back into dark capsules that flew upward into the planes’ bomb bays, while German fig ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • Deep Economy By Bill McKibben

    It used to be that more was better. Industrialization, urbanization, specialization and capitalism made people wealthier, healthier and happier. But where are we now? In his new book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bil ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 272 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0805087222
  • ISBN-13: 9780805087222
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
  • Pub date: Mar 04, 2008
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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