"The economy should be a subset of the living systems that sustain it, not the other way around," Jenna Nicholas says.

There's a debate about the meaning of economic scarcity going on all over the Web, most recently set off by Chris Anderson's "Economy of Abundance" talk at Pop!Tech, that David Hornik and Ross ...

Introduction : scarcity and frontiers -- The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC) -- The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD) -- The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to ...