The True Wealth of Nations arises from the conviction that implementing a morally adequate vision of the economy will generate sustainable prosperity for all. It sets forth the beginnings of an architecture of analysis for relating economic life and Christian faith-intellectually and experientially-and helps social scientists, theologians, and all persons of faith to appreciate the true wealth of any nation.

Bestselling author Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade, which has sold more than 500,000 copies sold) shows that at the root of all of society's big problems is the fact that we don't value what matters. She then presents a radical reformulation of economics priorities focused on the home.

I have called this book The Real Wealth of Nations because it shows that our most important economic assets are not financial that the real wealth of nations consists of the contributions of people and our natural environment. To address the needs of our world today, we have to bring together knowledge from many areas. I therefore draw from many...

What exactly is it that enables us to live as we do today? Is it that we work harder? Or, that we have more money? The simple truth is that we can live differently from how we lived a hundred years ago and a thousand years ago because of the accumulated sum of new ideas encapsulated in new technology. Money is in this sense only one small part of new technology, the myriad of ideas and inventions that support our way of living today.Why then are most solutions and even problems formulated in terms where "money" is essential? It is because it is the way we have been taught to think. Concepts used in economics, often grossly misinterpreted, have become our prison leading us into a very inhumane world. And we do not even see the prison bars that confines us to certain solutions because we think this is just how it must be. We think it is established science. And because we do not even see the prison bars we become our own wardens.We have thus been beguiled by economists to think that money is wealth and this creates an inhumane world. Instead we should focus on ideas and our true needs as the source of creating true wealth. But if we are to get away from the present focus on money and speculation to get more money we must change how we think and for that we need new ideas, concepts and models.However, new ways of thinking about economic matters will not come from the economists or the greedy rich. They simply have too much to loose. Economists would loose a lot of prestige or even their jobs and the rich would loose the easy ways they have invented to become rich by creating bubble money. We need new ways of viewing what is true wealth and how such is created. This way, and only this way, can we break free from the prison of economic thoughts that today dominate us.By applying his long experience in modeling the author shows alternate ways of viewing wealth, true wealth, based on modern research and sound principles of modeling. And that is thus what this book is all about.This book contain some mathematics. If you prefer a book without mathematical expressions, I recommend my book A New Monetary System.

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the first, most influential and lasting explanation of the workings of modern economics. But with his focus on "the market" as the best mechanism for producing and distributing the necessities of life, Smith's concepts only told part of the story, leading to flawed economic models that devalue activities that fall outside of the market's parameters of buying and selling. The real wealth of nations, Riane Eisler argues, is not merely financial, but includes the contributions of people and our natural environment. Here, Eisler goes beyond the market to reexamine economics from a larger perspective--and shows that we must give visibility and value to the socially and economically essential work of caring for people and the planet if we are to meet the enormous challenges we are facing.Eisler proposes a new "caring economics" that takes into account the full spectrum of economic activities--from the life--sustaining activities of the household, to the life-enriching activities of caregivers and communities, to the life-supporting processes of nature. She shows how our values are distorted by the economic double standard that devalues anything stereotypically associated with women and femininity; reveals how current economic models are based on a deep-seated culture of domination; and shows how human needs would be better served by economic models based on caring. Most importantly, she provides practical proposals for new economic inventions--new measures, policies, rules, and practices--to bring about a caring economics that fulfills human needs.Like her classic The Chalice and the Blade, The Real Wealth of Nations is a bold and insightful look at how to create a society in which each of us can achieve the full measure of our humanity.