Exploring Integral Economics

One of the more interesting sides of Integral is how individual researchers, already professionals in their field, are starting to take AQAL and apply it alongside the expertise that they have already acquired over many years of academic training and professional practice. 

When I was a young architecture student, I read Ken Wilber's Up from Eden. I was blown away, but it left me wondering, how does this apply to architecture today? That question persisted for me over the following years. In the chapters on "Integral Art and Literary Theory" in The Eye of Spirit, Wilber provided much lucidity to questions that had bothered me about the art side of architectural design. But for me by then it was perhaps too late, trying to exist in a PoMo clash of disparate schools of architecture. "Integral Architecture" had not been written, was not available, and had no bearing on what I was taught or what was expected of me. 

So with great appreciation, I'd like to mention, in the midst of these uncertain times, that Integral Economics does exist. Christian Arnsperger, currently a Senior Research Fellow with the Belgian National Science Foundation, and a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, has taken AQAL and applied it to provide a highly expanded perspective on economics. 

Full-Spectrum Economics: Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science

Arnsperger also has a blog here if you'd like to jump right in and start getting a feel for some new perspectives:

ECO-TRANSITIONS: Exploring the Next-Step Economy

As a lay reader I'm slowly working my way through Full-Spectrum Economics, so would be interested in exchanging impressions with anyone else here on IL who's willing to read the book.