William Greider recommends some changes to our economic system aimed at recovering some of the intangibles that get lost in the cash nexus. His argument dovetails with some of the “happiness research” that suggests a fairly fixed point of diminishing returns on income in terms of happiness. Bill McKibben makes use of a similar line of argument in his Deep Economy: even if we weren’t exhausting the planet’s resources and threatening our and other species’ future, our growth-oriented economy isn’t the best route to human flourishing.