The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Hazel Henderson evaluates the need for a broader definition of economic development, one which measures progress and prosperity by social as well as by traditional econometric measures. "Guiding societies by today's over-aggregated indices is like trying to fly a Boeing 747 with a single oil pressure gauge! The social indicators debate...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Although for generations the government of Vermont rested with the administrators of its 246 towns, the past thirty years have seen a slow but steady growth of central power. According to John McClaughry, Vermonters are in danger of losing true citizenship and therefore of losing their democracy as more and more decisions affecting the...

Machiavelli Nation is a provocative work of speculative political fiction that imagines the collapse of modern power structures-and the dangerous, idealistic forces that rush in to replace them. Following the death of his wife, Bernard, an ordinary man burdened by grief and disillusionment, is drawn into a hidden world where elites manipulate governments, economies, and public perception with ruthless precision.As institutions fracture and long-buried truths surfac...

Safety isn't just a policy—it's a culture built from within.In People First. Safety Always, Mickey Hannum challenges the outdated notion that compliance alone ensures safety. Drawing from real-world stories and proven leadership strategies, this book offers a powerful framework for building a workplace culture rooted in trust, accountability, and shared responsibility. Whether you're a safety professional, executive, or front-line leader, you'll gain the tools to ...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.The era of greed and dominance must end. In the Ecological Era, according to Dana Lee Jackson, "we must learn from nature and from women in order to transform our destructive patterns . . . . The first step . . . is to cultivate and elevate in importance some of the qualities and values most generally associated with women that can hel...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.David Ehrenfeld examines the consequences of "the extraordinary proliferation of administration, of bureaucracy, of management, the increasing percentage of people in our society who control events but do not themselves produce anything real." He gives examples of management that has become itself a raison d'etre, grown far beyond a si...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. The 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of America motivates Kirkpatrick Sale, author of The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy, to reassess the legacy of European settlement and domination, finding it dangerously inadequate. As a countermeasure to this heritage and as a practical step ...

A Journey Through Time: Book One: The Journey BeginsBy: C. J. HannumCora wants to belong. As a woman in a clan full of men, she wants to share in the responsibility of hunting for food and protecting their camp, though she finds this difficult to achieve as the son of the chief, wishes to be rid of her. Refusing to marry the chief, or his heir, Cora is banished into the Dark Forest. There, she finds a friend—an equal—in a creature she’s unfamiliar with. It is in the Dark Fo...

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Nationalism provides a comprehensive exploration of nationalist identity, ideology, and practice which centers the geographic underpinnings of the phenomenon. It unpacks the fundamental principles and the many variations of this global phenomenon, as it examines nationalism through a spatial lens.Nationalism is the dominant political force in the modern world and no other global ideology is so strongly tied to concepts like territory, homeland, frontiers, and boun...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Just as the sod-busting steel plow was destructive of the healthy agricultural development of Wisconsin, modern service technologies such as bereavement counseling can be destructive of the natural caring web of community. According to John McKnight, costly service technologies are often counterproductive, resulting in a community's lo...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.According to Jane Jacobs the healthiest economic regions are those which have strong and innovative import-replacing cities of their own. The economies of such city-regions are shaped and reshaped by complex, economically enlivening, interrelating forces originating within their own regions. Such regions, she says, become capable of pr...