What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth is a collection of essays Berry has written over the last 25 years bolstered by the inclusion of a few new essays written in the shadow of the recent economic collapse. The new essays are grouped together in the first part of the book and include “Money Versus Goods” and “Faustian Economics” and these new essays have much to say to those who are searching for a sustainable way forward. As a note to those unfamiliar with Wendell Berry, please do not pass on this book (or others from Berry) out of an expectation that this is a dry, academic, economic text laden with statistics or inaccessible theory. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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