The problem is unemployment; only growth can create the jobs. Schools and hospitals are underfunded; the answer is faster growth. We can’t afford to protect the environment; the solution is more growth. Poverty is entrenched; growth will rescue the poor. Income distribution is unequal; the answer is more growth. If the answer to the problem [...]
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It’s time to let go of both the blind faith that economic growth will fix things, and of the fear of what alternatives to growth-based economies could look like.
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Sharon’s observations in London on the day Occupy London commenced, and footage and reflections by Mike Freedman, including an interesting insight into Occupy from the perspective of the police.
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This is the first in a series of articles from the Post Growth Institute reporting on-the-ground impressions of Occupy events around the world. How did you first hear about Occupy? I live part of the year in New York and part in Sweden. The first news I heard of Occupy were whisperings in emails from [...]
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve read a series of good news stories that were accidentally written up in the business section as bad news.
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To celebrate Free Money Day, Brendan Rigby thinks about how the concept of access has come to shape not only our economies, but also our education.
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September 15 is Free Money Day! It’s not only about imagining alternatives to growth-oriented economic systems, but also about celebrating many of the alternatives that already exist.
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1). Getting the usual ‘experts’ together to plan for a better future. This always leads to tinkering with existing (flawed) plans, and excludes those most affected by such plans. Need: Involve mostly “different” people and start by focusing not on plans, but on values, beliefs, world views, paradigms—then feelings and passions—then, emergent from these, hopes, [...]
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It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward.
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