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Winner of the 2024 Silver Nautilus Book Award in theRising To The Moment category.
Finalist in the 2024 Indie Book Awards in the Current Events' category.
Societal grand challenges have taken a toll on humanity, which finds itself at a crossroads. The concentration of wealth and economic inequality, the dominance of Big Tech firms, the loss of privacy and free choice, and the overconsumption and abuse of natural resources have been reinforced by globalization. Regulation, legislation, international treaties, and government and corporate policies have fallen short of offering sufficient remedies. This book identifies the root cause of these problems and offers a bold solution: a new economic system, free from the design flaws that have contributed to these societal grand challenges.
The proposed cooperative economy is an ethical community-driven exchange system that relies on collective action to promote societal values while accounting f