ABSTRACT
The promise of abundance continues to attract and elude us. The market correction of 2008 (and beyond) has led some to consider the possibility of living more simply; many more do so by necessity. But most citizens of modern states seem drawn by the hope that our leaders will somehow restore the reign of abundance.1 Of course, modern abundance or affluence has never been for all. More than a billion inhabitants of this planet experience an acute form of scarcity-poverty. We have been asked to turn our eyes (and good intentions and actions) toward those for whom abundance is unrealized. How should we think about poverty, abundance, and scarcity?
