3.2.2 Market Prices and the Allocation or Protection
of Scarce Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.2.3 Checking Nature’s Safe Operating Spaces for Human
Growth Aspirations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
3.2.4 How Does Exchange Value Governance Impact
Living Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
3.2.5 Summary: Governing Human–Nature Relations
Successfully Depends on Understanding Them . . . . . . . . . . 96
3.3 How Mainstream Economics Anticipate the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
3.3.1 Which Real Qualities of Development Lie Behind
Monetarized Predictions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
3.3.2 Unveiling the Money Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.3.3 Summary: Opening up Mainstream Economic
Ideas Is Key for ‘Our Common Future’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
4 Mapping an Emerging New Economic Paradigm in Practice . . . . . . 119
4.1 Pioneering Businesses: Common Good Matrix and Balance
Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
4.2 Pioneering Civil Society: Transition Towns for Resilient
Local Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
4.3 Pioneering Governments: Beyond GDP Measures as
Development Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4.4 Pioneering Governance Systems: Commoning
as a New Stark Utopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
4.5 Summary: System Innovations for Sustainability
by Double-Decoupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
5 How to Work a Great Mindshift for Sustainability
Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
5.1 The Role of Mind-Sets in Unlocking Path Dependencies:
Antonio Gramsci’s Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
5.2 Transformative Literacy: Hacking Systems
and Their Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
5.3 Summarizing Outlook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Wuppertal Institut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Wuppertal Institut’s Research Focus on Sustainability Transition . . . . . 179
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
About this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
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of Scarce Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.2.3 Checking Nature’s Safe Operating Spaces for Human
Growth Aspirations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
3.2.4 How Does Exchange Value Governance Impact
Living Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
3.2.5 Summary: Governing Human–Nature Relations
Successfully Depends on Understanding Them . . . . . . . . . . 96
3.3 How Mainstream Economics Anticipate the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
3.3.1 Which Real Qualities of Development Lie Behind
Monetarized Predictions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
3.3.2 Unveiling the Money Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.3.3 Summary: Opening up Mainstream Economic
Ideas Is Key for ‘Our Common Future’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
4 Mapping an Emerging New Economic Paradigm in Practice . . . . . . 119
4.1 Pioneering Businesses: Common Good Matrix and Balance
Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
4.2 Pioneering Civil Society: Transition Towns for Resilient
Local Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
4.3 Pioneering Governments: Beyond GDP Measures as
Development Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4.4 Pioneering Governance Systems: Commoning
as a New Stark Utopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
4.5 Summary: System Innovations for Sustainability
by Double-Decoupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
5 How to Work a Great Mindshift for Sustainability
Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
5.1 The Role of Mind-Sets in Unlocking Path Dependencies:
Antonio Gramsci’s Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
5.2 Transformative Literacy: Hacking Systems
and Their Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
5.3 Summarizing Outlook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Wuppertal Institut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Wuppertal Institut’s Research Focus on Sustainability Transition . . . . . 179
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
About this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
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