The English social thinker John Ruskin followed him in the 1860s, railing against the economic thinking of his day, declaring that, ‘There is no wealth but life … That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings.’18 When Mohandas Gandhi discovered Ruskin’s book in the early 1900s, he set out to bring its ideas to life on a collective farm in India, in the name of creating an economy that elevated the moral being.
