So What? What’s Next? What Can You Do?
Indigenous values of relationship, responsibility, reciprocity, and redistribution (relational values for short), combined with values that give life (purpose, connectedness, diversity, boundedness, novelty, and wholeness), I have argued, need to be central in emerging socioeconomic thinking, language, and action. While this proposition is radically different from today’s dominant economic thinking, it is based in long-standing knowings, long-valued ways human beings have interacted with the world—knowings and ways that, as the physician’s oath goes, do no harm, or at least mitigate the deadly harms that the world is currently experiencing.
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