Free Download Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being by Peter Block, Alex Christiansen, Berrett-Koehler ✅Publishers, Inc.
English | November 17, 2023 | ISBN: B0CNKSCNP6 | 4 hours and 22 minutes | MP3 64 kbps | 120 Mb
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.
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