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As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people are experimenting with new forms of ownership, which Marjorie Kelly calls generative: aimed at creating the conditions for life for many generations to come. These designs may hold the key to the deep transformation our civilization needs.

The future can exist only if humans understand how to commune with the natural world rather than exploit it, explains Thomas Berry. "Already the planet is so damaged and the future is so challenged by its rising human population that the terms of survival will be severe beyond anything we have known in the past."

Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it.

This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, is dead. And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings & Loan. Instead, we're watching It's a Horrible Mess with Wall Street (aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economy and our tax dollars.

Drawing on a lifetime of study and experience, Boulding develops a general theory of human social evolution by examining the patterns humans use to understand the universe and changes in these patterns over time. The most important of these patterns are those that deal with "know-how" and the transmission of "know-how" between generations via biogenetic processes and cultural processes which produce organizations and physical artifacts. Boulding contends that human social evolution can be understood as the evolution of human artifacts.