
Category Archives: Gift economy
From Exchange to Gifting Part Three: Reintegrating into Flow One Experiment at a Time
From Exchange to Gifting Part Two: Beyond the Exchange/Gift Binary

From Exchange to Gifting Part One: Why We Need to Find Our Way out of Scarcity
Every Tree Wants to Make a Forest: Choice, Togetherness, and the Maternal Gift Economy
Visionary Functioning: Shifting Resource Flow Systems from Incentive to Willingness

(An edited excerpt from the “Resource Flow Systems” learning packet)
Our modern forms of engaging with resources are based on a deep-seated belief about human nature that is so pervasive that it almost never gets said explicitly: that we are only motivated by self-interest, narrowly defined, and that we won’t …
As Things Get Worse

For the last hundred years or so, significant portions of the population within so-called liberal democracies in the global north have known comfort, ease, and personal liberties that have been unprecedented since at least the patriarchal turn. It’s not a new phenomenon for some people within a stratified society to …
How Children Learn About Others’ Needs
Apart and Together: Addressing Needs beyond Market Economies
Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication – Part 2

In September of last year, I posted the first part of this piece in response to an article questioning the potential of personal practices like mindfulness to transform, or even challenge, the existing social and economic structures of our social world. I explored three deep questions I have about why …