“Agency, understood most broadly, refers to an entity's capacity to make particular things happen or to stop them from happening. Economic agency, in particular, is the power to shape the processes, relationships and outcomes of economic life. Who or what, then, is the source of dynamism and change in economic relations? Where does economic agency lie and how does it work? This chapter examines these questions in the context of diverse economies theory and its recent and ongoing engagements with ecological and posthumanist thought. What happens to economic agency when 'the economy' is expanded to include all livelihood practices? And what happens to agency in general when livelihood is expanded to include all relations of sustenance — economic and ecological? It may be that our very notions of the economy, and perhaps even of ourselves, must be radically transformed.” *
* Miller, E. 2020. "More-Than-Human Agency: From the Human Economy to Ecological Livelihoods." The Handbook of Diverse Economies, 402.