Framing the New Economy: Ideas for Prosperity in a Post-Growth Economy
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in...
View ArticleFinancing the Local Food Economy
How can a food economy on a local scale compete with industrial agriculture and international supply chains? Learn about how we can make a more sustainable, just food system a reality from panelists...
View ArticleStrategies for Economic Democracy
Donnie Maclurcan is co-founder of the Post Growth Institute, an international group exploring inspiring paths to global prosperity that doesn’t rely on economic growth. He is the Founder and Ideas Guy...
View ArticleSocial Impact Investing & Capital Markets
This panel brings together leaders in education, private sector, and non-profit businesses that successfully use existing financial tools for social good. Weaving a common thread between private and...
View ArticleBuilding a New Economy by Redefining Value
In the existing market-economy an imbalance occurs as our resources of land, people, capital and money itself all become commodities to be exchanged. As no new wealth is generated, only a speculative...
View ArticleStagnation or Sustainability? Japan as a Post-Capitalist Model
Since Japan supposedly hit an economic slump twenty years ago, forecasters have been predicting its imminent demise. The problem is that this view is based on the American model of unlimited growth as...
View ArticleMeme Wars: An Alternative Economics Textbook
*We lost the feed just before the 14 minute mark, sorry. We are trying recover a full recording of the session and hope to update it within the next few days. Darren Fleet of Adbusters will discuss...
View ArticleA New University for a New Economy Movement
In this talk, David Korten draws on his years of experience in helping to launch a new economy to describe how our universities can use their institutional resources to build a future of cooperation....
View ArticleGrowing Questions of Growth
*Unfortunately we tried to livestream this one and the Wirecast overlay was present, however the audio works just fine. In this session Dr. Bill Rees, Dr. Patrick Francois, Michael Barkusky and Conrad...
View ArticleOpen Money and Community Currencies
In this session Michael Linton and Jordan Bober detail the importance of open money systems for stronger social and ecological sustainability. (Visited 190 times, 1 visits today)
View ArticleWhy Start a Not-for-Profit Company?
In this session, Donnie Maclurcan describes the advantages a not-for-profit legal structure provides for enabling a sustainable world. (Visited 180 times, 1 visits today)
View ArticleExpanding Economics Education
Ellie Perkins and Tom Green describe the state of economics education and discuss methods for expanding opportunities for ecological economics and other approaches towards a new economic paradigm....
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