NEW: Spring 2026 Book Tour Announced

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Regenerative Economics: Revolutionary Thinking for a World in Crisis

A new book by John Fullerton. Now available from your favorite bookseller, and in Europe January 8.

Regenerative Economics is based on the deceptively simple idea that an economic system should emulate the process and patterns that define all life. This science-based next evolution of economics explains the root cause of the polycrisis and promises a hopeful pathway forward, rooted in unseen potential and abundance.

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SPRING 2026 BOOK TOUR

Meet John Fullerton on the road.

See John speak about Regenerative Economics around the world!

This spring, John will be speaking with investors, economists, students, and changemakers about the ideas behind Regenerative Economics, a framework for redesigning our economic system to align with the patterns of living systems.

Each event brings together local leaders and communities to explore how regenerative thinking can reshape finance, policy, and business for a thriving future.

If you are near one of these cities, you are warmly invited. Find details and registration links below.

A number of stops on the tour are still open for public registration:

  United States

  • San Francisco — Good People Dinner 195 at Arion Press | March 18, 6:00 PM
  • San Francisco — Global Philanthropy Forum at the 2026 Leaders Summit | March 19

 

  Europe

  • London — Ladbroke Hall | March 24, 7:00 PM
        → Register here.
  • Geneva — The Plaza | March 26, 5:00 PM
        → Register here.
  • Paris — Climate House | March 30, 6:00 PM
        → Register here.
  • London — The Conduit | April 1, 6:00 PM
        → Register here.

 

  United States

  • Asheville — With Life Asheville Retreat | May 1, 9:00 AM
    The tour will conclude this spring in Asheville, North Carolina, where John will join us for the With Life Asheville Retreat (April 30–May 3) to lead
    a full day exploring Re|Imagining Economics and Finance in Service to Life. → Register here.

 

This is economics for the new era. Join the conversation.

About The Book

A bold vision of an economy as an intelligent living organism, freed from the mindless finance algorithm, unlocking unseen potential

Regenerative Economics is based on the deceptively simple idea that an economic system should emulate the process and patterns that define all life, enabling it to adapt and evolve to higher levels of complexity. This science-based next evolution of economics explains the root cause of the polycrisis–the compounding impacts of climate change, ecosystem and biodiversity loss, planetary systems breakdown, and increasing social and economic inequity—and promises a hopeful pathway forward at this pivotable moment.

Rather than reacting to crisis after crisis, the purpose of a regenerative economy is to create the conditions that nurture and sustain health and all life.

This hard-hitting and scientifically rigorous yet ultimately hopeful book:

  • Identifies the unseen fatal error of our current economic model
  • Outlines a set of key regenerative design principles to navigate the polycrisis
  • Prescribes transformative individual actions and policies which both embrace and move beyond current materialist ideas of sustainability, circularity, and degrowth, to redefine systemic health and true value within the context of a whole-living-systems approach
  • Offers a fresh pathway through the polycrisis and toward a new economy—one that prioritizes human and planetary well-being, operates within ecological limits, and promotes a more just and sustainable future.

 

This seminal work is required reading for business, government, and community leaders; economic thinkers; academics; and anyone who questions the future of capitalism given the reality of finite planetary boundaries and growing social injustice.

About The Author

John Fullerton is an unconventional economist, impact investor, author, and some say philosopher. Following a two-decade successful career at JPMorgan, he walked away in 2001 with no plan but many questions. Now considered the architect of Regenerative Economics, he founded The Capital Institute in 2010 to explore the urgent need for economics and finance in service to life. John lives in Stonington, CT.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"Please read this important book; it will change your life and by extension change our system for the benefit of all Life that will come after us."
―Colin le DucFounding Partner of Generation Investment Management
"In a profound breakthrough, Regenerative Economics is the way-shower we need to urge our collective agency from separation to wholeness, domination to partnership, and conflict toward our evolutionary potential for planetary peace."
―Dr. Jude CurrivanCosmologist, Author, and Co-Founder of WholeWorld-View
"This book should be on the desk of every politician, CEO, CFO, and investor, worldwide."
―John ElkingtonSustainability Pioneer and Author of 21 books, including Tickling Sharks
"These are crucial reflections for an overheating and chaotic world."
―Bill McKibbenAuthor of Here Comes the Sun
"Exactly as predicted by Donella Meadows and colleagues a half century ago in the Club of Rome's seminal report, Limits to Growth, humanity has not only hit planetary limits, but human progress is moving backwards. The good news is that there are no limits to learning. With Regenerative Economics, Fullerton shows us a fresh pathway forward. The time has come to honor the wisdom of Limits to Growth by applying what we know and building an alternative future that makes us proud! This book and its thinking contributes to that edifice."
―Sandrine Dixson-DeclèveGlobal Ambassador for the Club of Rome and Co-Author of Earth for All
"Regenerative: everyone's using the word these days. You owe it to yourself to enjoy this deep dive from the man who made the term popular."
―Hunter LovinsPresident of Natural Capitalism Solutions, Author of 17 books including Natural Capitalism, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award
"This thought-provoking book, he urges us to take a more holistic approach to understanding the economy, ourselves, and the environment, and to base that understanding on the regenerative process common to all life. More than that, he points the way."
―Peter A. VictorProfessor Emeritus at York University and Author of Escape from Overshoot and Herman Daly's Economics for a Full World
"This is one of the most important books on economics in our times. Fullerton understands clearly that our human economy is a subset of nature's economy. But he goes further. In aligning our economic systems with nature's generative processes, he points us toward creating a flourishing Earth community. This perspective echoes the wisdom found in many ancient teachings, offering a pathway to transcend our separation and join together as an interdependent planetary species. Regenerative Economics is an indispensable beacon shining the way to our shared planetary future."
―Mary Evelyn TuckerCo-Founder and Co-Director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and Co-Author of Journey of the Universe
"John Fullerton's new book, Regenerative Economics, is a light for dark times, offering a new lens for us to reconsider livelihood and how we live in community with ourselves and the natural world. Those who have been waiting for a rigorous yet soulful definition of regeneration and regenerative principles will find Fullerton's approach refreshing, coherent, and comprehensive."
―Vincent StanleyDirector of Philosophy, Patagonia
"We need to rethink everything–our economics, finance, culture, politics– if we are to meet the great challenges of our times. Let's begin with this powerful and timely book."
―Rebecca HendersonJohn & Natty University Professor, Harvard University
"The beacon of John Fullerton and his book Regenerative Economics is a new North Star. It's just what the doctor ordered in these turbulent times."
―Rob JohnsonPresident of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
"Fullerton's book is radical, as in getting to the root of the matter. It offers the kind of imaginative thinking our leaders urgently need to transcend our differences and align around the vital challenge of our time: economic system transformation. Regenerative Economics offers an inspirational and credible pathway forward; it stirs our souls with well-founded hope."
―Sam PitrodaInnovator, Entrepreneur, Author of Redesign the World, Artist, and Former Advisor to two prime ministers of India
"The world's polycrisis is tearing apart the social and ecological systems vital to our well-being. How can we reduce these terrible risks? John Fullerton guides us to an essential answer. We must shift from the reductionist thinking, institutions, and practices driving the polycrisis and instead reimagine―and then reconfigure―our economies as complex living systems. Lucid, impassioned, and entertaining, Regenerative Economics offers a master plan to arrest our collective slide towards disaster."
―Thomas Homer-DixonPhD, Executive Director, Cascade Institute and Author of Commanding Hope
"For 4 billion years, evolving life has tinkered ever-novel ways of making our livings with one another. Regenerative Economics powerfully reminds us that our tasks are to sustain functional integration of the global economy as we flow into the Adjacent Possible we create. GDP, a mismeasure of Man, does not measure functional integration."
―Stuart KauffmanMacArthur Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Author of Reinventing the Sacred