Riane Eisler - The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics

Eisler shows how to value economically what is valuable humanlyand what could be more revolutionary than that? To imagine money not as the root of all evil but the measure of all good, read The Real Wealth of Nations.

Gloria Steinem

This book should be mandatory reading for every CEO, every economist, every government official, every student, and every citizen of our world.

Jeffrey Hollender, President, Seventh Generation, Inc.

In The Real Wealth of Nations, Riane Eisler, long a voice of sanity and clarity in an increasingly confusing world, does what has been desperately needed for a long time: she brings back a human- and nature-centric perspective to economics to show how ends and means can be integrated.

Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline

In The Real Wealth of Nations, Riane Eisler lays out a comprehensive and compelling argument for why we must change national and global priorities about what work, and which workers, we valueincluding worldwide attitudes towards caring for our children.

Marian Wright Edelman, President, Childrens Defense Fund

An essential tool for government leaders, politicians, economists, and everyone looking for ways to halt environmental destruction, eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and build a better future, The Real Wealth of Nations shows us how to construct a sustainable new economyand a good quality of life for generations to come.

The Honorable Vigds Finnbogadttir, President of Iceland, 19801996

The Real Wealth of Nations is a call for nothing less than a ground shift in consciousness. I urge you to read this profound and important book.

Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and Insecure at Last

In this brilliant new look at economic systems and how they interact with culture, Riane Eisler has created what is sure to be a classic andhopefullyworld-changing book.

Thom Hartmann, author of Screwed and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

Riane Eisler is one of the most important and influential thinkers of our time. In The Real Wealth of Nations she turns her attention to the importance of caring and issues a clarion call for contemporary societies to recognize and value the essential contribution of caregiving to human well-being.

David C. Korten, author of The Great Turning and When Corporations Rule the World

Eisler has done it againproducing an exciting and urgently needed guide to the economic realities that face our society. Those of us who hope for a new direction in dealing with issues like poverty and global warming need to read and reread Eislers analysis. The Real Wealth of Nations is a necessary handbook for the 21st century.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun and author of The Left Hand of God

The real wealth of nations has always been in people, yet the vast economy of caring (over half of all economic activity globally) is still ignored and unpaidlargely relegated to the worlds women. Eisler sets the record straight, showing us an array of new options for creating sustainable, caring societies. Must reading!

Hazel Henderson, author of Building a Win-Win World and Ethical Markets

This is a wonderful, hopeful book, not about where we have been economically, but about the potential for economics to reflect what we truly valuequality of life and quality of the environment.

Daniel Kammen, Codirector, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California

Why has conventional economics been so slow to offer compelling, useful responses to our most threatening challenges, such as environmental degradation or raging inequalities? Riane Eisler answers this question, and in doing so, reinvents the dismal science, infusing it with the essential ingredients it needs to get us out of the terribly narrow box in which weve been stuck.

Jared Bernstein, senior economist, Economic Policy Institute, author of Crunch and All Together Now

Riane Eisler speaks from the heart, showing how we can make a better world for our children and our childrens children. It is time to love our planet, love our neighbors, and heed Rianes call to action... its time for a caring revolution.

Joan Blades, cofounder, MoveOn.org, and author of The Motherhood Manifesto

From third world poverty to climate change, its become increasingly clear that traditional economic thinking is not only unable to solve todays myriad of problems, its responsible for many of them. Riane Eislers brilliant new book expands the scope and practice of economics beyond capitalism and socialism to a new economics in which equity, justice, and environmental sanity prevail. Must reading!

Morris Dees, cofounder, Southern Poverty Law Center

In this brilliant new book, Riane Eisler hits the nail on the head. She points out exactly how and why the only sustainable economic systems are those that include the cost of human caring and happiness in the bottom line. Better yet, she provides us with practical steps toward implementing this crucial economic shift.

Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom and Mother-Daughter Wisdom

The Real Wealth of Nations outlines a new economicsone that inspires us to fulfill the dream envisioned when the United States Founders declared independence from that earlier empire.

John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

This book should be read by every member of Congress, and its practical ideas incorporated into economic policy.

The Honorable Claudine Schneider, former member of the United States Congress

This book is an essential, practical, and loving survival guide to the future.

Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science

Listen to Riane Eisler! No one is better at conveying the urgent message that we must abandon our economic double standard and start valuing the essential work of caring for and investing in ourselves and our environment.

Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood

Riane Eisler is one of the great wisdom voices of our times. In The Real Wealth of Nations, she gives us the vision and understandingand the tools we can useto shift our economics to a path where greed and violence no longer prevail but are replaced by creativity and generosity. If you want to be part of the solution, read this magnificent book!

John Robbins, author of Healthy at 100 and Diet for a New America

Riane Eisler has provided an accessible, fascinating, and persuasive argument for a caring perspective on economics. Brilliant.

Nel Noddings, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, and author of The Challenge to Care in Schools and Starting at Home

The Real Wealth of Nations will challenge you to reconsider not just where our nation is going but also what role you want to play in its future. This is a call to action that should be read and discussed by parents with their children, in our schools, and throughout any and all not-only-for-profit organizations.

Mark Albion, cofounder, Net Impact, and author of More Than Money, True to Yourself and Making a Life, Making a Living

Brilliant and inspiring! Riane Eisler is one of those few extraordinary people whose insight and ability to express complicated ideas in simple language help the rest of us to understand the human condition. The Real Wealth of Nations updates the dismal science of economics to the complex realities of the 21st century and points the way to a sustainable future.