Hazel Henderson
for homepageAlternatives to Economics
A new edition of the award-winning classic on how economics ("politics in disguise") really works and what is required to build a sensible economic system within environmental limits.
Doubleday, 1981; Knowledge Systems/TOES Books, 1988. Paperback $16.95The Politics of the Solar Age outlines the needed reconceptualization of major political issues in the industrialized nations during the 1980s and beyond. It describes the new, winning coalitions that have already begun to replace the old parties and alignments in these societies. The new coalitions comprise the "small is beautiful" rural and urban homesteaders and land trusters; the activists in food, housing, and other cooperatives and credit unions; those formally excluded from the Old Order: women, blacks, Hispanics, and the solar-and-renewable-energy and appropriate-technology reformers as well as the movements for consumer and environmental protection. In this path-breaking and timely book, the internationally know futurist and economist provides us with the alternative visions of the future, stressing the concept of global citizenship -- "thinking globally and acting locally" -- thereby creating self-reliant communities with ecological tolerances. Following its initial publication in 1981, The Politics of the Solar Age won the Political Science Book Award in the USA.
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