ABSTRACT
The western “Mysteries”, to which the American so called Transcendentalists (Emerson, Thoreau) were attached, gave “economy” a precise meaning, adapting social life as a whole – first and foremost in agricultural and industrial production, consumption and commerce – to the green planetary and cosmic cycle of life. The American economy, grasped in this “western” sense, bears in itself the sources of vital natural and spiritual reality, because it is rooted in the unique American talent to use generously the gifts of great Mother Nature. Assimilating the best that African, European and Asian cultures can offer, this “west” uses, in this indigenous and exogenous American respect, its unique capabilities to create an imaginative economy, politics and culture.
