Creating Local Wealth by Michael Shuman
The following talk by Michael Shuman was presented as the kickoff event of Vermont’s New Economy Week 2013. It explores various ways that communities can invest locally and create wealth and resilience. Michael Shuman is one of the leading experts on community economics. He is the author of numerous books, including Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Move Your Money from [...]
Robert Johnson, Strategies for a New Economy Conference
June 9, 2012
“Water and air are priced at zero, meaning in order to breathe, I don’t have to pay a tollgate. On the other hand, if you cut off my air and my water, I would be willing to pay to get it turned back on. So there’s something amiss in the theory of value that doesn’t value these common [...]
Alisa Gravitz, Strategies for a New Economy Conference
June 9, 2012
Alisa Gravitz, the long-time Executive Director of Green America, was invited to give a workshop and speak at a plenary session at the New Economics Institute’s Strategies for a New Economy conference. In the video below, she discusses how families and businesses can take action to shift their involvement from the conventional, “falling apart” economy to the vibrant [...]
Bob Massie, Strategies for a New Economy Conference
Life Beyond Growth
By Alan AtKisson
Alternatives and Complements to GDP-Measured Growth as a Framing Concept for Social Progress
2012 Annual Survey Report of the Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy, and Society — ISHES (Tokyo, Japan)
Table of Contents
Preface
A Note on Sources and References
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Historical Foundations of Economic Growth
Chapter 2:The Rise (and Possible Future Fall) of the Growth Paradigm
Chapter 3: The Building Blocks [...]
