Creating Alternative Futures, first published in 1978, pioneered many of today's debates on how to reformulate economic theories to guide industrial societies on healthier paths toward more equitable, ecologically sustainable human development.

Hazel Henderson explains clearly how Gross National Product distorts the goal of human development worldwide. She points out its misleading assumptions and shows how to correct its errors and redefine health, wealth, and progress for humanity's long-term survival.

Her social and ecological insights inspired a generation of students who are many of today's socially responsible, innovative entrepreneurs and business people. The book also predicted the sweep of democratization and the new "third sector" of grassroots globalists: a growing voluntary civic society based on local communities and their informal economies. More than 15 years later, Henderson's recommendations are as timely as ever.

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