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Weathering extremities -- From poor to paws -- From straw for brains to wise owls -- Heartless: If only AI had EI -- Making the lion's share enough to go around -- Locked in the past -- Technological wizardry or trickery? -- The wonderful Emerald City -- The magical festival of urban food -- The nightmare of Oz the Terrible -- Meeting the wonderful Wizard of Oz -- Back home -- Chasing rainbows -- Official correspondence of The Wizard's Office, Oz -- An introduction to this 'Imaginary for today's real world' from Ken & Alex -- An overview: The Wonderful Circles of Oz framework and its sigil for resetting the rules of the game -- Today's economic narrative -- Worldview pre-science -- Shifting the metaphor: From machine to metabolism -- The productive cycle: Four rules for materials to flow not fail our economy -- Uncovering the big players: Active but hidden in plain sight -- The gatekept cycle: Four rules for money to circulate not clot our economy -- The liberation and terrors of a digital world -- A flourishing democracy - the path to a flourishing economy -- Story as a strategy for sharing real world complex ideas -- Weathering extremities - real world themes -- From poor to paws - real world themes -- From straw for brains to wise owls - real world themes -- Heartless: If only AI had EI - real world themes -- Making the lion's share enough to go around - real world themes -- Locked in the past - real world themes -- Technological wizardry or trickery - real world themes -- The wonderful Emerald City - real world themes -- The magical festival of urban food - real world themes -- The nightmare of Oz the Terrible - real world themes -- Meeting the wonderful Wizard of Oz - real world themes -- Back home and Chasing rainbows - real world themes.

"With the world's economies impacted by coronavirus, billions are acutely feeling social, environmental and economic injustices. The call for a new, more just, more distributive economic story and system is now louder and more urgent than ever. The Wonderful Circles of Oz provides both the framework and solutions for navigating us towards an effective circular economy - the gateway to an abundant, autonomous and democratic future. Widely regarded as one of the world's most engaging circular economy thought leaders, Ken Webster, together with creative writer, Alex Duff, use a storytelling approach based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to offer a new, accessible and compelling narrative about the future direction of our economy. 'The harder you work, the more you'll improve your lot.' That's the simple story we've been sold over the last 40 years to justify how today's economy works. Yet extreme inequality, the devastation of our natural world, and the erosion of our communities, tell us this economic story resembles a work of fiction and the way our extractive economy operates is not fit for purpose. Still a restoration narrative, a satisfying story about our future and how we'll get there, is slow to emerge. Using allegory, commentary, and reflection, The Wonderful Circles of Oz helps speed the shift from an extractive economy of materials, energy, and finance to one based on an effective circular economy, which builds wealth as a stock of solutions accessible to all. The Wonderful Circles of Oz goes beyond tired debates (capital vs labour and market vs state) and blends fiction and non to effectively communicate the need for macro-economic system redesign. Exploring complex change and containing echoes of modern monetary theory, this book is a must for business professionals, students, and anyone with an interest in the circular economy"--

"A no-holds-barred exposé on the financial transactions of the world's favourite sport The transfer fees clubs pay to sign top players now top €4 billion a year but much of the money has been flowing out of the game. A small group of wealthy investors including Russian oligarchs, English racehorse owners and a former billionaire gold miner have seized the opportunity to enter this booming market. Some have moved in on the territory of banks and lent money to clubs in exchange for a share in fees generated by Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and dozens more of today's stars. Others have acquired obscure teams to get a piece of the pie. Even as the global financial crisis sent fortunes tumbling this select group found a profitable place to park their money. The size of the transfer market has continued to rise –- it increased seven-fold in value the last two decades, more than the FTSE share index. Between them, these wealthy investors have amassed hundreds of millions of euros in profits. At the same time, they have managed to stay out of the spotlight the world's most popular sport brings. Football's Secret Trade follows the money along a trail very few know about, from nondescript offices in the U.K. and ramshackle stadiums of South American clubs you have probably never heard of to offshore bank accounts in the Caribbean. Warning – you won't see a major transfer deal in the same light again."