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About "Economic Resilience"

Part I: Understanding Economic Contraction

• A basic explanation: Economics
• Possible ways off the Mountain

Part II: Possible Scenarios for the future

• Herman Daly: Steady State Economics
• Stoneleigh: Debt and Energy
• Tim Jackson: Prosperity without Growth
• James Gustave Speth: Economics and Political Action
• Helena Norberg-Hodge: Going Local
• Charles Eisenstein: A Gift Culture
• Framework from the New Economics Foundation

Part III: Local Resilience Through Collapse 
     The Blueprint

1. Develop inner resilience
2. Expect Contraction
3. Rethink the idea of "Jobs"
4. Resilience-building types of Businesses
5. Multiple Currencies
6. Community-centric Investment
7. Indicators that measure the right stuff
8. Redefine "Success"
9. A Socially-just Economics

Part IV: Crafting the Shadow Structure 
    10. Economic philosophy to support the new future


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