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Handling the Truth: Our Economic Community

Handling the Truth: Our Economic Community

Ervick, Michael Paul

Paperback

Series: The First Economy

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN13: 9798249314767
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Handling the Truth is a quietly radical book that challenges how we define the economy. Through a compelling narrative centered on a nonprofit leader and a neighborhood responding to crisis, Michael Paul Ervick exposes the limits of GDP, job metrics, and professionalized systems-and reveals the vast, invisible First Economy of relationships, mutual aid, and unpaid care that actually sustains life.

Rather than arguing in abstraction, Ervick shows how formal institutions falter in moments of real need while informal, relationship-based networks respond faster and more effectively. The book's most unsettling insight is that these networks cannot be scaled, systematized, or professionalized without being destroyed. Trust takes time. Community resists metrics.

This is not a how-to guide or policy manual. It's a call to honesty-for funders, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and anyone who senses that something essential is missing from modern economic thinking. Once you see what truly holds communities together, you can't unsee it.

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