Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care with a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery

Making an urgent appeal for a bold new economic practice, eminent Dutch economists Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange provide a provocative twelve-step program for eocnomic recovery based on compassion for the planet and all its people.
Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a bold new economic practice. In the face of distressing societal realities - poverty, pollution and environmental degradation, ongoing losses in both the quantity and the quality of work - eminent Dutch economists Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange argue that the foundations of our local, national, and international economic order need renewal, and they provide a provocative twelve-step program for economic recovery based on an "economy of care" for the earth and its people.