Wolfgang Hoeschele

= author of the book: The Economics of Abundance. A Political Economy of Freedom, Equity, and Sustainability. Gower, 2010 [1]. Wolfgang Hoeschele, Professor of Geography, Truman State University, criticizes our present economy as being based on scarcity-generating institutions, and explores solutions based on creating abundance.

Bio

Wolfgang Hoeschele received his BA in biology and art from the College of Wooster in Ohio (1987), his MS in environmental science from Washington State University (1990), and his Ph.D. in geography from the Pennsylvania State University (1998). He is now professor of geography at Truman State University in Missouri. His earlier research focused on land degradation in southern India, and on devising a classification system for countries in the world economy. His more recent work has consisted of a critique of our current economy of scarcity, and conceptualizing an economy of abundance - an economy that does not seek to create profitable scarcities, but rather that seeks to enable all people, and an abundance of animal and plant species, to thrive, now and in the future. He is now engaged in a new project of launching "CAN", a Commons Abundance Network, an online social network for learning, collaboration, and innovation as a crystallization point for a commons-based economy of abundance. Publisher's website of his book, "The Economics of Abundance: A Political Economy of Freedom, Equity and Sustainability" can be found here: (http://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566089404) More information on the book on the P2P Foundation site: [[2]]

More Information

1. Information about the book, The Economics of Abundance, via http://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566089404
2. Example: Applying abundance to cities, http://shareable.net/blog/how-to-create-abundant-cities