Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- PART 1 ORIENTATION -- Chapter 1 Re-inventing Economics -- 1.1 Introduction: Is there an Alternative to the Western Mainstream? -- 1.2 Towards an Integral Economic Perspective -- 1.3 Releasing Economic Gene-ius -- 1.4 Conclusion: Moral Core to Living Economy -- References -- Chapter 2 Revisiting Mainstream Economics -- 2.1 Introduction: The Development of Economic Analysis -- 2.2 Economics of Self-Sufficiency: Stone Age Economics to Aristotle's Autarky -- 2.3 Developmental Economics: Historicism to Marxism -- 2.4 The Rise and Fall of Social Economics: J.S. Mill, Institutionalism, Marginalism -- 2.5 Neoliberalism to Living Economics: Smith, Keynes, Daly -- 2.6 Conclusion: Towards Economic Renewal -- References -- PART 2 INSPIRATION -- Chapter 3 The Moral Economic Core -- 3.1 Introduction: The Protestant Ethic as Western Moral Core -- 3.2 Indigenous Moral Core: First Nation People -- 3.3 Eastern Moral Core: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian -- 3.4 Northern Moral Core: Catholicism to Distributivism -- 3.5 Enriched Protestant Moral Core: Quaker, New Reformation -- 3.6 A Middle Eastern Moral Core: Islam -- 3.7 Conclusion: Revitalizing the Moral Economic Core -- References -- Chapter 4 The Centered Enterprise -- 4.1 Introduction: Sekem - Revitalizing Islamic Economics -- 4.2 Self-Sufficiency: A Sustainable Community in the Desert -- 4.3 Developmental: A Fusion of the Occident and the Orient -- 4.4 Social: The Economics of Love -- 4.5 Living: Ultimately Restoring the Earth -- 4.6 Conclusion: Releasing Sekem's Gene-ius -- References -- PART 3 TRANSFORMATION -- Chapter 5 Economic Commons -- 5.1 Introduction: Community and Economics -- 5.2 Revisiting the Co-production of Livelihoods -- 5.3 Social Production: A Critical Review -- 5.4 African Economic Humanism.

5.5 Conclusion: Economic Humanism and the Economic Commons -- References -- Chapter 6 Grassroots Economics -- 6.1 Introduction: Community, Culture and Economics -- 6.2 Culture and Community: A (Not Only) Mexican Perspective -- 6.3 From Parochial Universe to Global Pluriverse -- 6.4 From Pluriverse to Earth Democracy -- 6.5 Conclusion: Economics from the Grassroots -- References -- Chapter 7 Subsistence Economics -- 7.1 Introduction: Beyond Efficiency - Towards Sufficiency -- 7.2 From Sufficiency to Subsistence -- 7.3 Subsistence, Markets and Globalization -- 7.4 Subsistence and the Commons -- 7.5 From Labor to Work and Fulfillment -- 7.6 Conclusion: Sufficiency and Subsistence -- References -- Chapter 8 The Social Business -- 8.1 Introduction: Grameen - A Bank for the Poor -- 8.2 Starting the Economic Engine at the Rear -- 8.3 The Global Reach of Grameen's Micro-Credit Approach -- 8.4 Building a Self-Sufficient Economy: From Grameen Bank to Grameen Phone -- 8.5 Towards the Social Business -- 8.6 Conclusion: Creating a World without Poverty -- References -- Chapter 9 Co-evolutionary Economics -- 9.1 Introduction: Economics and Culture -- 9.2 Development Revisited: The Illusions of Progress -- 9.3 Towards Co-Evolutionary Economics -- 9.4 Conclusion: Re-Culturalization and the Economic Mosaic -- References -- Chapter 10 Conscious Economics -- 10.1 Introduction: Economics and Wholeness -- 10.2 Levels of Consciousness -- 10.3 The Economics of Health, Beauty and Permanence -- 10.4 Aiming for Right Livelihood -- 10.5 Education, Organization and Discipline -- 10.6 Conclusion: The Necessary Shift in Economic Consciousness -- References -- Chapter 11 Associative Economics -- 11.1 Introduction: Culture, Politics and Economics -- 11.2 The Nature and Scope of the Threefold Commonwealth -- 11.3 The Liberation of Capital -- 11.4 The Capital Economy.

11.5 The Metamorphosis of Capitalism -- 11.6 Conclusion: Taking Humanity Beyond the Market -- References -- Chapter 12 The Developmental Enterprise -- 12.1 Introduction: Canon - Linking Business and Consciousness -- 12.2 Spirit, Heart, Mind and Body of Canon -- 12.3 Towards Co-Evolution at Canon -- 12.4 Conclusion: Beyond the Japanese Economic Miracle -- References -- Chapter 13 Economics of the Common Good -- 13.1 Introduction: Re-interpreting Adam Smith -- 13.2 Sismondi's New Principles -- 13.3 John Hobson and the Economics of Social Reform -- 13.4 The Advent of Humanistic Economics -- 13.5 Conclusion: Towards an Economics of the Common Good -- References -- Chapter 14 Social Learning and the Network Economy -- 14.1 Introduction: From Limits to Growth to No Limits to Learning -- 14.2 Network Society and Information Economy -- 14.3 Overcoming Social Under-Development -- 14.4 Conclusion: Multifaceted Journey Towards A Social Economy -- References -- Chapter 15 Open Economics -- 15.1 Introduction: Economics in an Open Society -- 15.2 Society and Economy Open for Improvement: The Case of India -- 15.3 Economies in an Open Society -- 15.4 Conclusion: The Future is Cooperative -- References -- Chapter 16 The Cooperative Enterprise -- 16.1 Introduction: Mondragon - Humanity at Work -- 16.2 Origins and Philosophical Foundation of Mondragon -- 16.3 Building on Basque Culture and Context -- 16.4 The Development of Mondragon -- 16.5 Organizational Culture and Cooperative Knowledge -- 16.6 Conclusion: Cooperative Remaking of Economics -- References -- Chapter 17 New Economics -- 17.1 Introduction: Re-Grounding the West, from Within -- 17.2 The Need for a New Economics -- 17.3 New Economic Theory: Putting People First -- 17.4 Revisiting the Nature of Work: Towards 'Own Work' -- 17.5 Constructing the Antithesis to the Growth Economy.

17.6 Conclusion: New Economics to a New Economic Agenda -- References -- Chapter 18 Real Economics -- 18.1 Introduction: A New Economic Map, Agenda and Practice -- 18.2 Caring Economics: From Domination to Partnership -- 18.3 Wall Street's Phantom Wealth versus Main Street's Real Wealth -- 18.4 Agenda for a Real Economy -- 18.5 Transforming Money: Towards a New Integral Money System -- 18.6 Conclusion: From Real Wealth to New Wealth Measurement -- References -- Chapter 19 Well-being Economics -- 19.1 Introduction: Towards Genuine Wealth -- 19.2 What's Wrong with the Picture of Progress? From GDP to GPI -- 19.3 The Genuine Wealth Model -- 19.4 The Genuine Wealth of Communities and Nations -- 19.5 Conclusion: Towards Sustainable Development -- References -- Chapter 20 The Sustainable Enterprise -- 20.1 Introduction: Interface - Giving Back to the Earth -- 20.2 Ecosense: The Ecology of Commerce -- 20.3 The Transformation of Interface -- 20.4 The Sustainable Enterprise of the Next Industrial Revolution -- 20.5 Towards the Global Benefit of the Sustainable Enterprise -- 20.6 Conclusion: The Sustainable Enterprise as Part of a Global Movement for Life -- References -- PART 4 INTEGRATION -- Chapter 21 The Integral Economy -- 21.1 Introduction: Activating Economic Gene-ius -- 21.2 The Four Economic Paths of the Integral Economy -- 21.3 A New Integral Economic Map -- 21.4 Conclusion: The Fully Integral Economy - Integrating Four Worlds and Center -- References -- Chapter 22 Co-creating the Future -- 22.1 Introduction: Five Core Success Factors for Releasing Economic Gene-ius -- 22.2 Catalyze Economic Gene-ius via Integral Economy Laboratories -- 22.3 Commit to a Burning Issue, Relevant Economic Path and Moral Core -- 22.4 Maintain Interconnected Focus: Middle-Up-Down-Across -- 22.5 Build an Integral Economic Ecosystem -- 22.6 Link Up with a Movement.

22.7 Conclusion: The Future is Integral - Let's Make it Happen -- References -- Epilogue -- Index.

Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises? There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer pave the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the richness of diverse economic approaches from all over the globe. By introducing the most evolved economic perspectives and bringing them into creative dialogue they argue that neither individual enterprises nor wider society will be transformed for the better without a new economic perspective. Here, they introduce a comprehensive framework based on the same 'Four Worlds' model that is applied to enterprise and research in their earlier works. Given the richness of even mainstream economic theory reviewed in this book, let alone the variety of alternative approaches introduced, it is frustrating that policymakers and business practitioners are impoverished by a lack of apparent economic choice - between a seemingly failing capitalism and an already failed communism. The 'villains of the piece' in relation to this lack of choice are not so much the financial community and governments, though they do have much to answer, but the schools of economics and the business schools, that have created the very social ethos, the philosophical principles, and the mathematical models, that influence events. Integral Economics is partly addressed to academics and students in those very schools, who have either realized the error of their ways, or, less dramatically, are curious to explore whether our businesses and communities could be run in a different way. It will be welcomed by informed senior practitioners, eager to understand the current rethink of economic theory and practice and to

discover how to position themselves, their organizations, and their society within a new framework.

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