Category: Rethinking money
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Can we have economic growth AND eliminate all pollution? TSSEF thinks so.
It may sound impossible to you as you have probably heard that environmental destruction is the price we pay for economic growth. However, it is just as clear that environmental destruction is the price future generations pay for environmental destruction. If you get what I mean. Many economists I have met have looked at me…
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If the economy were a patient – medicine for trade imbalances
When doctors gather around a patient the goal is clear: they know that they need to cooperate to apply the best medicine and interventions to get the patient on the road to recovery. So too, when economists, politicians and civil servants gather to consider what to do to put the economy on the right path.…
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If the national economy were run as a football game…
The modern economy has undoubtedly given millions better lives. However, despite years of experience and development of macroeconomic theory, despite decades of Nobel prizes in Economics, there still doesn’t appear to be a way to run an economy without putting severe hardship on a large percentage of the population. And this state of affairs is…
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Interest-free banking
This simple film below highlights the Swedish JAK Bank that offers interest-free loans. Interestingly, it explains how most sectors of society pay interest but one actually earns more than it pays. It also explains how interest drives economic growth which itself drives a drawing down of ecological and mineral resources. Altogether a compelling argument for…
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How to run a financial permaculture session
This is a method for using the cafe method with financial permaculture. It can be used to plan a start up sustainable community or to develop a more resilient local business. It has one major element: The object worksheet For the first use, start by asking participants, in an open space setting, to identify which…
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10 Common Sense Principles for the New Economy
David Korten is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the People-Centered Development Forum, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies(BALLE). Following the publication of his book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, he has formulated these ten common…
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Swedish right-wing newspaper criticises Gross National Product (GNP) forecasting
Yesterday, the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research issued a forecast of growth of 3.7% to 2012. In a manner rather atypical for the newspaper, SVD today slams into the Institute with an article heavily criticising them for measuring the wrong things. “They measure the trees but forget to assess the woods” says reporter Jacob…
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The Exhibition: a story about investing in sustainability
What would it look like if we set up the economy to drive the change towards sustainability? What would we invest in, what would we pay for? Would banks have another role? I set myself the assignment of creating a vision of things to come, and decided to approach it using the techniques of imagestreaming.…
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Free e-book: Get ahead of the curve
I wrote this book, and am giving it away, because I am concerned that we citizens of Earth are heading for a crisis caused by the way we run things. Not just an economic crisis but a humanitarian crisis . This e-book will explain the five major reasons I see why you need to start…