Regenerative Oikonomics

Andri W. Stahel has graduated in economics, in public administration, has a master's degree in international economics, and holds a PhD in social sciences. Stahel has been teaching and researching for over 30 years in ecological economics, associative economics, development studies, social phenomenology, complexity theory, Goethean Science, epistemology, and post-normal science. Currently, he is affiliated with the Associative Economy Institute (ELO), Brazil. During this time, he developed a unique, living, and holistic perspective into the economic process, which he termed regenerative oikonomics. Lately, he has been writing about and promoting his phenomenological, transdisciplinary, and holistic understanding to offer a living and real-world perspective of economic life to a larger audience. This perspective provides a much-needed alternative to the standard model-based and reductionist approach to the economy found in mainstream economics.

• Part I. What Went Wrong with Modern Economic Science?.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Encounter of the Fifth Kind with an Alien Science.- Chapter 2. Is Economics a Science?.- Chapter 3. About Economists and Theologians.- Chapter 4. Taking a Phenomenological Approach to Oikonomics: Looking at the World in Living and Holistic Terms.- Part II. What is the Oikonomy all About?.- Chapter 5. Aristotles’ View – Oikonomy as the Art of Living and Living Well.- Chapter 6. Polanyis’ View – The Different Forms of Oikonomy.- Chapter 7. The Troubles with Free-Markets.- Part III. Nature’s Oikonomy.- Chapter 8. The Ways of Gaia.- Chapter 9. A Matter of Scale.- Chapter 10. Learning to See Again.- Chapter 11. The Evolution of Consciousness.- Part IV. Human’s Oikonomy.- Chapter 12. Humans as Part of Nature’s Oikonomy.- Chapter 13. Are We in Need of Our Needs?.- Chapter 14. Money, Cancer and Finances: Why the Rich Get Rich, and the Poor Stay Poor.- Chapter 15. Conclusion – In Freedom and Responsibility.