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| | Changing the Rules of the Game |
 | | It proposes that, particularly in our postindustrial age, we need new economic rules, models, policies, and measurements that recognize the value of the most socially essential work: the work of caring for children and the elderly, of keeping our families healthy, of developing and sustaining relationships, and of maintaining a clean and healthy environment. |
 | | Indeed, a major, though still generally undiscussed, feature of present economic models and rules – whether capitalist or socialist – is their failure to recognize the economic value of the socially and environmentally essential work of caring and caregiving. |
 | | Economic rules, measures, and policies that recognize the real value of the essential work of caring for children and the elderly, keeping our families healthy, and maintaining a clean and healthy environment, are foundational to the construction of an economics that can meet the challenges we face. |
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