Block Peter
Block Peter - Activating The Common Good Reclaiming Control Of Our Collective Well - Being - Hardcover
Block Peter - Activating The Common Good Reclaiming Control Of Our Collective Well - Being - Hardcover
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Description: A powerful inspiring and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification. This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized violent selfish and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are. The challenge Peter Block says is that we are suffering under an economic theology that is based on scarcity self - interest competition and infinite growth. We re told we can purchase and outsource all that matters. Block calls this the business perspective narrative. It dominates not only the economy but also architecture faith communities journalism arts neighborhoods and much more. Block offers an antidote: the common good narrative. It embodies the belief that we are basically communal and cooperative. And that we have the capacity to communally produce what we care most about: raising a child safety livelihood health and a clean and sustainable environment. This book describes how shifts to the common good perspective could transform many areas fostering journalism that reports on what works architecture that designs habitable spaces creating connection faith collectives that build community a market that is restrained and local and leadership and activism that build social capital by creating trust among citizens. With these shifts we would fundamentally change the world we live in for the better.
Title: Activating The Common Good Reclaiming Control Of Our Collective Well - Being
Author(s): Block Peter
Publisher: Berrett - Koehler Publishers
Barcode: 9781523005963
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 11/28/2023
Category: Politics & Government
Description: A powerful inspiring and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification. This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized violent selfish and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are. The challenge Peter Block says is that we are suffering under an economic theology that is based on scarcity self - interest competition and infinite growth. We re told we can purchase and outsource all that matters. Block calls this the business perspective narrative. It dominates not only the economy but also architecture faith communities journalism arts neighborhoods and much more. Block offers an antidote: the common good narrative. It embodies the belief that we are basically communal and cooperative. And that we have the capacity to communally produce what we care most about: raising a child safety livelihood health and a clean and sustainable environment. This book describes how shifts to the common good perspective could transform many areas fostering journalism that reports on what works architecture that designs habitable spaces creating connection faith collectives that build community a market that is restrained and local and leadership and activism that build social capital by creating trust among citizens. With these shifts we would fundamentally change the world we live in for the better.
Title: Activating The Common Good Reclaiming Control Of Our Collective Well - Being
Author(s): Block Peter
Publisher: Berrett - Koehler Publishers
Barcode: 9781523005963
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 11/28/2023
Category: Politics & Government
