The Book
Sageocracy, toward a society founded on an awareness of our bonds and respect for the living world
A book. A vision. A precise path to get there.
A precise path for the crossing
For a long time, the transformation of society was thought of in two ways. On one side, reforms within the existing frameworks. On the other, visions of another civilization, with no precise path to get there.
Between the two, a space remained largely unexplored: that of the transition itself.
How do we move, concretely, from a system founded on money and accumulation to a system that recognizes the real contribution to the living? How do we do it without breaking what still holds together the daily life of millions of people?
The book Sageocracy proposes a precise path for this crossing. An architecture that articulates economic transformation, the evolution of the relationship to property, the security of essential needs, and the maintenance of a collective stability during the period of the shift.
Author: Yannick Costechareyre
Publication: September 2027
A word from an author who was not meant to write it
This book should not have existed. It was written by a man who had no calling to write, a man active in building and character real estate, who became a designer of digital projects, who became a researcher in consciousness, who became an author almost in spite of himself.
The idea was born in 2004. Not a book, a site, a platform: what would make Sageocracy possible. The will was there. The means were not. It took more than twenty years to find them. And when the site could finally be built, in 2025, the book imposed itself. Almost in spite of its author.
What this book carries today is not one more theory. It is what resists simplification. It is what, after two decades of observing the world and exploring within, asks to be named.
Twenty-two years of maturation
During those twenty-two years, the project did not wait. It went through an entrepreneurial adventure and its collapse. Eleven years of suspension, without ever ceasing to try. A deep exploration of consciousness. With each trial, something was ripening.
The site preceded the book
Sageocracy.org has existed since July 2025. The book itself was not planned, it imposed itself several months later. This chronology is not an anomaly: it reveals the very nature of the project. The tipping point does not begin with the publication of a book. It begins with each person who recognizes that the current framework is no longer enough.
A direction, not a program
A book is not a political program. It is a direction.
Sageocracy is neither a utopia, nor a turnkey recipe, nor a manifesto. It is a coherent proposal, articulated, verifiable, applicable, to gradually reorient the way we decide, work, own, pass on and live together.
The book explores the major dimensions of collective life: money that lies, education that separates, work that exhausts, housing that distances us from ourselves, justice that punishes, medicine that cuts the living into organs, and proposes, for each, what could be there instead.
At the heart of the book, an unprecedented economic architecture: a transitional monetary system that allows, for the first time to the author's knowledge, the passage from one model of civilization to another to be envisioned without collapse, without violent revolution, without a utopia that shatters against reality.
Not through one great evening, but through a great number of small mornings.
In the lineage of those who have named
This book stands in the lineage of the thinkers who have, each in their own way, named a part of what is being sought today.
From philosophers of complexity to anthropologists of debt, from theorists of post-growth economics to explorers of consciousness, from ecologists of regeneration to pioneers of collective decision-making: so many contributions that resonate in these pages, without any of them being fully found there.
What this book proposes articulates these dimensions in a coherence that no work, to its author's knowledge, had presented until now as a practicable device of transition.
Publication in September 2027
The book will be published in September 2027 by an independent publishing house, whose name will be announced shortly. International rights will be managed language by language, with no blanket sale to a major publishing group. For foreign editions, an introductory voice may be sought from an author whose work resonates with the approach and with the readership of each language. These choices will be made with each publisher.
Time for a careful edition
Between the moment a publishing house commits to a book and the day it reaches the bookshops, twelve to eighteen months usually pass. This delay is not idle waiting: it is the time of the work that makes a book.
Work on the text
Editorial review, copy-editing, checking of quotations and references, typesetting, layout, cover, then proofs read and corrected before printing. Each stage takes several weeks, and none can be rushed.
The press and booksellers
Journalists discover a book several months before it comes out. The press office needs this time to present the work to newsrooms, radio and television, and booksellers need it to read the book before recommending it to their readers.
Why September
In France, the autumn season that opens in September is one of the great moments of the publishing year. Spring 2027 will be taken up by the French presidential election, which will concentrate media attention. A book about the way we decide together deserves to be read for its own sake, not as one more voice in a campaign.
What one will read on closing the work
What you hold in your hands is neither a manifesto nor a program. It is a direction.
The author, in a few lines
The project was born in 2004, from an intuition with no words to express it. It would take twenty-two years for it to become an architecture, economic, monetary, institutional, and a practicable path. This book is not the starting point of Sageocracy: it is its culmination.
Yannick Costechareyre was born in 1964. He lives in the south of France.
To go further
Sageocracy will be published in September 2027 by an independent publishing house. Its international publication will then be built language by language: international rights will be carefully managed, with no blanket sale to a major publishing group, the condition for one and the same work to exist in dozens of languages without losing its coherence.
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