Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes. With creativity and imagination this book invites us to look at our very ordinary days, from waking up in the morning to going to bed in the evening, and to begin to think about combating poverty in new, inventive ways.

John Perkins' controversial and bestselling exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, revealed for the first time the secret world of economic hit men (EHMs). But Perkins' Confessions contained only a small piece of this sinister puzzle. The full story is far bigger, deeper, and darker than...

Foreword / by Herman Daly -- Preface -- Questions of enough -- Have you had enough? -- Why should enough be the goal? -- How much is enough? -- What sort of economy provides enough? -- Strategies of enough -- Enough throughput : limiting resource use and waste production -- Enough people :...

On the surface: symptoms of death and rebirth -- Structure: systemic disconnects -- Transforming thought: the matrix of economic evolution -- Source: connecting to intention and awareness -- Leading the personal inversion: from me to we -- Leading the relational inversion: from ego to eco --...

How can the world's nearly 3 billion who live on 2 a day or less be lifted out of poverty? Paul Polak (bestselling author of Out of Poverty) and the organizations he has founded have pioneered methods that have already helped nearly 20 million of the world's poorest people to get out of poverty...

An invention born of necessity: the Mont Fleur scenario exercise -- A new way to work with the future -- First step: convene a team from across the whole system -- Second step: observe what is happening -- Third step: construct stories about what could happen -- Fourth step: discover what can...