New Arrival The Habitation Society

Creating Sustainable Prosperity
A compelling analysis of our transition from an industrial economy to a habitation economy, which maps out how this new economy can work more effectively for people, their families and their communities.
In The Habitation Society, leading economic and political sociologist Fred Block argues that we are at a time of blocked transition from one mode of economic and social organization to another. We now have a habitation economy because most people work at creating, maintaining or improving the soft and hard infrastructure of the communities in which we live. The problem, however, is that we do not yet have a habitation society since our economy continues to be organized through the structures, institutions and concepts of an industrial economy. While the old industrial economy is dying, the new habitation society cannot yet be born.But it is more than this, our methods for understanding how the economy work