Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

“Our experience of the world depends on the actual structure of the networks in which we’re residing and on all the kinds of things that ripple and flow through the network. Now, the reason, I think, that this is the case is that human beings assemble themselves and form a kind of superorganism. Now, a superorganism is a collection of …

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein

“Money is an agreement. It doesn’t have value all by itself. It has value because people agree that it has value.” – Charles Eisenstein THE SHIFT TOWARDS THE GIFT: Economic globalization has served to reduce transactional redundancy by stripping out the local social infrastructure and communal relationships which form the foundation of a robust local economy. After this infrastructure was …