Four Steps to a More Caring and Just Economy

Eisler offers a 4-step framework for building a more caring & just economy in her 2019 Bretton Woods keynote speech: What’s Next? Beyond Capitalism and Socialism.

Recognize that our old economic systems came out of domination-oriented times.
Recognize the interconnection of economic and social systems
Recognize the economic value of caring for people and for nature.
Change our measures of economic health.

Watch the full keynote address.

Leadership in a Post-Pandemic World

On January 28, 2021, Riane Eisler keynoted the 100 Women @ Davos event, called How to Lead in a Post-Pandemic World.

Her speech titled “Partnerism: A New Model for Leadership- Beyond Capitalism and Socialism” kicked off the 2-day online World Economic Forum event that reflected on the future of leadership in our communities impacted by the global pandemic.

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Building Cultures of Peace

Riane Eisler accepted the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award (earlier awarded to Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama) and delivered an acceptance speech that emphasizes the importance of “spiritual courage” in moving away from Domination Systems to Partnership Systems.

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Riane Eisler’s U.N. Address on “Caring for People and for our Mother Earth”

“What we need is a major cultural shift,” Dr. Eisler told U.N. delegates as she joined global leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on April 20th, 2011.

In her speech, Dr. Eisler stressed that much of the suffering, hunger, poverty, and violence challenging the world today is a symptom of the “domination paradigm” of race over race, man over woman, and human over nature.

Read Dr. Eisler’s U.N. Address Here

Riane Eisler was so far ahead.

Now she is right on time.

“The Real Wealth of Nations gives us a template for the better world that we are so urgently seeking. As practical as it it is hopeful, this brilliant book shows how we can build economic systems that meet both our material and spiritual needs.”

Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu

“The Real Wealth of Nations is a call to action. I wholeheartedly agree that it is not only politicians, businesses and financial institutions that must change, but rather each one of us must play a role in developing a more caring society. This book is an important tool that can help us make that happen.”

Jane Goodall

“The Chalice and The Blade is the most important book since Darwin’s Origin of the Species.”

Princeton Anthropologist Ashley Montagu

“Sacred Pleasure is Eisler’s most stunning, far-reaching, and practical gift—both to readers and a world that must change or perish.”

Gloria Steinem

“Some books are like revelations, they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities. The Chalice and the Blade is one of those magnificent key books that can transform us.”

Novelist, Isabel Allende

“The Real Wealth of Nations is an essential tool for government leaders, politicians, economists, and everyone looking for ways to halt environmental destruction, eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and build a better future.”

Vigdis Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland 1980-1996

“Sacred Pleasure has everything you have always wanted or should have wanted to know about sex— and about love, pain, pleasure, spirituality, and society. A monumental opus: fascinating and important.”

Author, Ervin Laszlo

Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, futurist, cultural historian, attorney, consultant, and speaker, whose work has transformed organizations, policies, and people worldwide. Her book Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (co-authored with anthropologist Douglas Fry, Oxford University Press 2019) shows how to construct a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on Partnership Systems rather than Domination Systems and her The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future is in over 57 US printings and 30 foreign editions.

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Riane Eisler’s way is the caring way.

A body of work that spans over 35 years and helps build and develop world views that could shape and change our future for the better.

Dr. Riane Eisler’s extensive research published in her books has inspired scholars and social activists. Her research has had an effect in many fields, including history, literature, philosophy, art, economics, psychology, sociology, education, human rights, organizational development, political science, and healthcare.

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