A Dignity Economy: Creating An Economy That Serves Human Dignity And Preserves Our Planet

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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.

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A Dignity Economy Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet Evelin Lindner MD, PhDs (Dr psychol, Dr med) [email protected] [email protected] 2011 Dignity Press Copyright © 2011 by Evelin Lindner. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bysa/3.0/. Please note: This license allows free use of the material with the restrictions that the author has to be mentioned as the originator and that works making use of it have to stay open under the same license. Published by World Dignity University Press, an imprint of Dignity Press 16 Northview Court Lake Oswego, OR 97035 USA www.dignitypress.org Visit the book‘s website: www.dignitypress.org/dignity-economy Art direction and cover design by Uli Spalthoff. Cover photo (Farmer land rights protest in Jakarta, Indonesia) by Jonathan McIntosh (www.rebelliouspixels.com). Printed on paper from environmentally managed forestry. See www.lightningsource.com/chainofcustody for certifications. ISBN 978-1-937570-03-3 This book is also available as eBook: eISBN 978-1-937570-04-0 Other Publications by Evelin Lindner Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict (2006) Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, Greenwood Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (2009) Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, Greenwood Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs (2010) Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, ABC-CLIO More publications on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php Dedicated to my father, who, through his example, gave me the courage to stand up rather than stand by in the face of indignity. CONTENTS Foreword by the Directors of Dignity Press ............................................................ vii Foreword by Linda Hartling..................................................................................... vii Foreword by Ulrich Spalthoff ................................................................................. viii Preface .......................................................................................................................... xi Introduction ............................................................................................................... xxi Part I: Where Do We Stand? Where Might We Go? ............................................. 29 Chapter 1: While Critical Voices