A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet

The economic crisis has many labels ranging from "subprime crisis" to "credit crunch," to "financial tsunami" or "economic Armageddon. Around the world, people are coming to a single diagnosis: "Something is deeply unhealthy in our world." This book advocates a deep paradigm shift, not just from one rigid paradigm to another rigid paradigm, but away from rigidity altogether. Away from massive institutions toward a global movement that is co-created by people and their enthusiastic energy. We need a dignity revolution, and not just in Tunisia or Egypt. Now we need a global dignity revolution, a world dignity movement, a movement that creates inclusion, both locally and globally. This book by the author of award winning books "Making Enemies - Humiliation and International Conflict", "Emotion and Conflict", as well as "Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security" provides an overview about the plurality of concepts and movements aimed at this. "This book's publication has been hastened by the Occupy Wall Street movement. This movement gave the author the motivation to bring an unfinished manuscript to the level of publication. The first version of this manuscript was presented on August 20, 2009, at a conference at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Since then, it has been growing almost daily and has had many titles. It is not a traditional manuscript planned at the drawing board, designed "to sell". It is rather a snapshot taken at one moment of an ongoing process, an ever unfinished book, a "walking" book, part of a journey. The economic crisis has many labels, ranging from "subprime crisis" to "credit crunch", to "financial tsunami" or "economic Armageddon". Around the world, people are coming to a single diagnosis: "Something is deeply unhealthy in our world". This book advocates a deep paradigm shift, not just from one rigid paradigm to another rigid paradigm, but away from rigidity altogether. Away from massive institutions toward a global movement that is co-created by people and their enthusiastic energy. We need a dignity revolution, and not just in Tunisia or Egypt. Now we need a global dignity revolution, a world dignity movement, a movement that creates inclusion, both locally and globally." -- Publisher's information