• Discourse around natural limits to growth meets an information technology
revolution that could enable decentralized, resource-light well-being.
• Limits to private property and financialization are discussed as tenets for
securing all citizens’ freedoms and the functioning of democracy.
Where this type of thinking lies at the heart of developing businesses, towns,
governments, and communities is the topic we turn to now.
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revolution that could enable decentralized, resource-light well-being.
• Limits to private property and financialization are discussed as tenets for
securing all citizens’ freedoms and the functioning of democracy.
Where this type of thinking lies at the heart of developing businesses, towns,
governments, and communities is the topic we turn to now.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give
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