CHAPTER 7

Towards Flourishing Life and Creating Collective Value

Developing flourishing, life-oriented socioeconomic systems means understanding what it is that allows systems to flourish and moving towards outcomes that enhance what scholars Tom Donaldson and Jim Walsh have called collective value (without any dignity violations). This chapter develops these ideas in more depth, starting with a discussion of flourishing built on understanding Indigenous wisdom and exploring what gives life to systems. Then the chapter moves towards an examination of collective value based on important work by Thomas Donaldson and James Walsh.

Flourishing

Flourishing encompasses and goes beyond the idea of sustainability, which really means to maintain in a steady ...

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