The Real Wealth of Nations (2007) Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (born July 22, 1931) is an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and author who writes about the effect of gender and family politics historically on societies, and vice versa.

Her work is covered in publications ranging from Scientific American, Behavioral Science, Futures, Political Psychology, The Christian Science Monitor, Challenge, and UNESCO Courier to Brain and Mind, Human Rights Quarterly, International Journal of Women's Studies, and World Encyclopedia of Peace, as well as chapters for books published by trade and university presses (e.g., Cambridge, Stanford, and Oxford University).

Her research provides a new perspective on our past, present, and possibilities for the future, including a new social and political agenda for building a more humane and environmentally sustainable world.

Eisler’s multi-disciplinary whole-systems analysis highlights how traditions of domination underlie current crises, as well as how to move to a more equitable, sustainable, and caring world.

She and her parents lived in a slum in Havana for seven years, after which they emigrated to the United States, to Miami, New York, and Chicago before finally settling in Los Angeles.

[4] Drawing on ten years of multidisciplinary research, in her third book The Chalice and the Blade (originally published in 1987) she coined the terms "partnership" and "dominator" to describe two underlying forms of society.

Dominator-oriented societies are characterized by sexism and other forms of in-group versus out-group rankings such as racism and anti-Semitism, as well as chronic war, ecological destruction, and unsustainability.

The organization is "dedicated to research, education, and building tools to construct economic and social systems that support human beings and the planet that sustains us.

"[9] As of 2024, the Center acts as a digital hub of resources, tools, connections, and community designed to empower and educate people involved in the #PartnershipMovement worldwide.

Your talk sent more reverberations through our community than any speaker we'd ever had.” Edward M. Hundert, M.D., President, Case Western Reserve University, 2002-2006 "Riane Eisler spoke to the hearts and the heads of the top women at Microsoft.