Last month the (En)Rich List was unveiled here at PGI. Coming out on top was E F Schumacher, one of the most influential men of the 2oth century. But who was Ernest Fritz Schumacher, and what makes him so important? Fritz Schumacher was born in Germany 1911, in time to spend his childhood in the [...]
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When 26 year old Canadian Lee Brain began his testimony at the public hearings of the son of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel in Prince Rupert on February 18, 2012, he claimed to be ‘no one in particular’. What did this young man say about the proposal to run a pipeline from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, [...]
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I spent the day last Monday at the United Nations by invitation of the Bhutanese government (along with about 600 other guests). The event was called “High Level Meeting on Well-being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm.” I thought, “It must not be very high-level if I am invited.” Nonetheless, there I was among [...]
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On September 15, 2011, people handed out their own money to complete strangers, asking recipients to pass half on to someone else. Here are our reflections on the event, and details about Free Money Day 2012.
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We are very excited to share news of our latest project: The (En)Rich List.
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We often think of the concept of ‘post growth’ and the questioning of GDP as a measure of success as something that recently emerged with the Global Financial Crisis. Yet post growth thinking has a long intellectual history, dating back to well before the 20th century – in the 19th century, John Stuart Mill wrote ‘Of [...]
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When it comes to international donating practices, bottom-line logic may be working against the best interests of global citizens.
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Post growth futures require that we collectively re-set, not offset.
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The 2011 wrap up of the Post Growth Institute’s first year – the end of bigger, the start of better!
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