The native professor at SUNY who wrote the delightful 2015 book Braiding Sweetgrass, is back with this short rambling book about the Gift economies, in part based on her experience with Serviceberries, otherwise known as Saskatoon berries. She contrasts the extractive unsustainable selfish economics of Adam Smith and his so-called rational man with the giving economy in which communities share whatever they need with each other and with nature as a part of a whole community.
« Continued fealty to economics based on competition for manufactured scarcity, rather than cooperation around natural abundance is now causing us to face the danger of producingreal scarcity, evident in growing shortages of food and clean water, breathable air and fertile soil. »
There is little here that is not duplicated in more detail in Braiding Sweetgrass, which I think overall is a better read, but both seem hopelessly idealistic to this pessimist. But this one is also interesting and has the added benefit of brevity.
4/5
Thanks, Goodreads.
The Passionate Reader 
Native studies professor? Or native of?
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