Open AccessFrom Economizing to Ecologizing: Emerging an Integrated Perspective
Author(s) -
Sandra Waddock
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of management, spirituality and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.966
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1942-258X
pISSN - 1476-6086
DOI - 10.51327/fjsb1004
Subject(s) - stewardship (theology) , sociology , orthodoxy , localism , perspective (graphical) , environmental ethics , ecology , social science , political science , law , biology , archaeology , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , history , philosophy
The complex wickedness of many of today's social and ecological problems calls for more integral thinking to bring better alignment between human activities, particularly economic and business activities, and ecological realities. This paper integrates emerging knowledge about the differences between right (holistic) and left (analytic) brain thinking, Indigenous wisdom, and the physics, biology, complexity, and chaos sciences into ideas for a new economic orthodoxy. Doing so offers the potential to shift away from today's predominantly economizing mindsets towards integrated ecologizing mindsets that more holistically and realistically represent the world. Drawing on recent work that articulates six core values for a lifeaffirming economic orthodoxy, this paper explores that shift away from business as usual with today's dominant neoliberal economics towards an integrated ecologizing socio-ecology. The need is to translate economizing mindsets associated with neoliberal economics into ecologizing ones through ideas that prioritize stewardship, collective value, cosmopolitan localism, regenerativity, relationality, and equitable markets.