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Part 3: the professional journey In 2003, I started to work in Mexico in the microfinance sector. It showed me that a beautiful idea conceived for the greater good could easily be transformed into an instrument of exploitation by corrupt minds and systems. The same technology can be used to help people come out of […]

Part 2: the scientist’s journey  As I really wanted was to work for the Earth, from 2007 to 2013 I did a PhD in (ecological) economics. I studied the Costa Rican national program of economic incentives for forest conservation (“payments for environmental services”). This PhD thesis taught me two main things. First, by looking through […]

Part 1: the spiritual journey Why did I write this book? Why did I spend so much time over the last ten years researching, meditating upon and writing this book proposing a new development paradigm focused on “being” instead of “having”? In brief, my spiritual path, my thought as a social scientist and my professional […]