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Ecstatic Economics™
What an economy would look like if aliveness, rather than output, were the thing it was arranged to produce.
6 chapters · 59,773 words · Narrated · Still being written
The word is chosen precisely. Ecstasy means standing outside — and the argument here is that an economy organised only around measured output puts everybody inside a frame that cannot see most of what they value. This volume asks what changes if the frame is widened: what gets counted, what gets priced, what stops being an externality.
It is the more speculative and more lyrical of the economic volumes in this Canon. The rigorous, mathematics-first treatment of living systems economics is a separate thirty-six volume shelf at economics.hautelumiere.life.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.