The tale of the bees by Mandeville is the starting point of this volume. It deals with the issues arisen from the industrial revolution, modern capitalism and from the economy of the globalised market. The meaning of “good living” (or buen vivir as called by the indigenous of the Americas) sets an urgent question about possible economies and alternative or corrective politics rather than the capitalistic new-liberalism of nowadays. It would be a change aiming to preserve biodiversity, the world various cultural traditions and, above all, the affirmation of the rights to life of “our Mother Earth, who feeds us and rules us”.