about the book
Transforming Economy: From Corrupted Capitalism to Connected Communities
and its associated website, Citizen Zeus (http://citizenzeus.com), operate on a premise of democratic, creative change: People around the world can learn conscious, connected transformation in order to meet the exciting and daunting challenges of our times.
In order to facilitate effective transformation this book will help you:
· Awaken to the present condition.
· Understand what is going on economically.
· Unleash possibilities for the future.
· Discuss how to move forward.
· Connect to a growing, healthy body of change, and understand why.
This book shares new thinking and practices to transform obsolete economic commitments and beliefs and apply new economic understanding toward life choices.
Transforming Economy is divided up into three basic parts,“Corrupted Capitalism,” “Transforming Economy,” and “Connected Communities.”
I. Corrupted Capitalism: Learning from the Past -- This is a no-holds-barred exposé of the rampant, unapologetic fraud of our global financial system. This section gives notions like “debts are assets” an analytical thrashing. It is a readable, but sometimes detailed, examination of the “way things work now” as the culmination of a series of ill-fated past choices. It explores the irrationality of our present system, but also offers practical policy directions to help mitigate the effects of that irrationality, and it points to a way out of our present predicament.
Chapter 1: Imaginary Worth, Empire of Debt: How Modern Finance Created Its Own Downfall
Chapter 2: Unhinged: When Concrete Reality No Longer Matters to the Market (and What to Do About It)
Chapter 3: Fighting and Winning When The Market has Cancer: How Unregulated Profit Cannibalizes the Economic Body and How Democratic Citizens Can Effectively Respond
II. Transforming Economy: Understanding the Present Challenges and Opportunities -- This is the fulcrum section of the book.
This section describes where we are now, caught as we are in that uncomfortable place between old economic momentum and new realities. In this transition, knowledge is power, if we can emotionally face what knowledge reveals. What is happening socially and economically? What are the effects and investment implications likely to be? How will the current trends play out?
Chapter 4: The Big Squeeze: Predicting the Effects of Savings Extortion and Abuse of the Middle Class
Chapter 5: Endgame: When Debt is Fraud, Debt Forgiveness is the Last and Only Remedy
Chapter 6: Money from Nothing: A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications
Chapter 7: The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, and Cascading Default
III. Connected Communities: Embracing the Future of Democratic Capitalism — This section addresses the strong, pragmatic, and hopeful alternatives to our present system. The most important quotes and elements of the previous sections are combined with a
discussion of emerging technological and social innovation in order to create a new way forward. This section is how the story can turn out if we apply human creativity, integrity, and productivity. This is how the story can turn out if we respect, develop, and connect to each other’s deeper contributions.
Chapter 8: Making a Living vs. Making a Killing: Creating a Healthy Democratic Foundation for Economies
Chapter 9: Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness
Chapter 10: “I Give A Damn”: A Capitalist Manifesto for the Productive Class
Chapter 11: Youth of the World Unite!: How Younger Generations Can Lead the Way To a New Frontier
By outlining the contradictions of the present complex system in simple terms, and providing creative alternatives, readers are empowered by Transforming Economy to make locally fulfilling, globally wise choices.
This book is the initial product in Citizen Zeus’s ongoing broader efforts (http://citizenzeus.com) to develop impactful, successful ways to "Learn to Transform", especially in the areas of economy, learning, and spirituality.
and its associated website, Citizen Zeus (http://citizenzeus.com), operate on a premise of democratic, creative change: People around the world can learn conscious, connected transformation in order to meet the exciting and daunting challenges of our times.
In order to facilitate effective transformation this book will help you:
· Awaken to the present condition.
· Understand what is going on economically.
· Unleash possibilities for the future.
· Discuss how to move forward.
· Connect to a growing, healthy body of change, and understand why.
This book shares new thinking and practices to transform obsolete economic commitments and beliefs and apply new economic understanding toward life choices.
Transforming Economy is divided up into three basic parts,“Corrupted Capitalism,” “Transforming Economy,” and “Connected Communities.”
I. Corrupted Capitalism: Learning from the Past -- This is a no-holds-barred exposé of the rampant, unapologetic fraud of our global financial system. This section gives notions like “debts are assets” an analytical thrashing. It is a readable, but sometimes detailed, examination of the “way things work now” as the culmination of a series of ill-fated past choices. It explores the irrationality of our present system, but also offers practical policy directions to help mitigate the effects of that irrationality, and it points to a way out of our present predicament.
Chapter 1: Imaginary Worth, Empire of Debt: How Modern Finance Created Its Own Downfall
Chapter 2: Unhinged: When Concrete Reality No Longer Matters to the Market (and What to Do About It)
Chapter 3: Fighting and Winning When The Market has Cancer: How Unregulated Profit Cannibalizes the Economic Body and How Democratic Citizens Can Effectively Respond
II. Transforming Economy: Understanding the Present Challenges and Opportunities -- This is the fulcrum section of the book.
This section describes where we are now, caught as we are in that uncomfortable place between old economic momentum and new realities. In this transition, knowledge is power, if we can emotionally face what knowledge reveals. What is happening socially and economically? What are the effects and investment implications likely to be? How will the current trends play out?
Chapter 4: The Big Squeeze: Predicting the Effects of Savings Extortion and Abuse of the Middle Class
Chapter 5: Endgame: When Debt is Fraud, Debt Forgiveness is the Last and Only Remedy
Chapter 6: Money from Nothing: A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications
Chapter 7: The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, and Cascading Default
III. Connected Communities: Embracing the Future of Democratic Capitalism — This section addresses the strong, pragmatic, and hopeful alternatives to our present system. The most important quotes and elements of the previous sections are combined with a
discussion of emerging technological and social innovation in order to create a new way forward. This section is how the story can turn out if we apply human creativity, integrity, and productivity. This is how the story can turn out if we respect, develop, and connect to each other’s deeper contributions.
Chapter 8: Making a Living vs. Making a Killing: Creating a Healthy Democratic Foundation for Economies
Chapter 9: Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness
Chapter 10: “I Give A Damn”: A Capitalist Manifesto for the Productive Class
Chapter 11: Youth of the World Unite!: How Younger Generations Can Lead the Way To a New Frontier
By outlining the contradictions of the present complex system in simple terms, and providing creative alternatives, readers are empowered by Transforming Economy to make locally fulfilling, globally wise choices.
This book is the initial product in Citizen Zeus’s ongoing broader efforts (http://citizenzeus.com) to develop impactful, successful ways to "Learn to Transform", especially in the areas of economy, learning, and spirituality.
