Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a bold new economic practice. In the face of distressing societal realities - poverty pollution and environmental degradation ongoing losses in both the quantity and the quality of work - eminent Dutch economists Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange argue that the foundations of our local national and international economic order need renewal and they provide a provocative twelve-step program for economic recovery based on an economy of care for the earth and its people.