Reconceiving Freedoms: Roundtable on "Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage" Books 1 & 2

This Roundtable will present and explore a set of theoretical and practical proposals for advancing global movements toward ecological, equitable, and democratic economic systems (policies, practices, principles, and structures). Featuring two recent books in the Building a Moral Economy series, this Roundtable centralizes visions of economic and socio-ecological relationships that do not fall prey to simplistic fallacies of freedom, but instead cultivate freedom from the demands of an extractive economy and freedom for living in right relationships with self, human others, and the Earth community. Three authors and four panelists are featured in this Roundtable, which explores how people can participate in a journey of economic healing by viewing economic life as spiritual practice; build alternatives to extractive capitalism (social structures, worldview, and lifestyle practices); and pursuing forms of freedom that are life-giving instead of relationship-sundering and death-dealing.