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[title] Agenda for a New Economy: 2nd edition
Book by David Korten

A Declaration of Independence from Wall Street

Nearly two years after the economic meltdown joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and there doesn’t seem to be the will in Washington to make desperately needed...

[title] YES! Magazine: The New Economy issue
Magazine by YES! Magazine

This downturn marks the end of an unsustainable economy. There is an alternative… Meet the activists, visionaries, and upstarts building something new: an economy that puts people first and works within the carrying capacity of the Earth

[title] Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible
Book by John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander (eds)

In the last few years, the IFG became the first major organization to initiate work on alternative policies and visions to the current global economic model enforced through institutions such as the World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as...

[title] The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Book by James Gustave Speth

How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are...

[title] Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
Book by David C. Korten

Today’s economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it – including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess – do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed...

[title] Making the Economy more Just
Article by Katrina vanden Heuvel

Originally published in The Washington Post

Congress has passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, but the task of transforming our economy into one of shared...

[title] Towards a New Economy and a New Politics
Article by Gus Speth

Originally published on Solutions (http://thesolutionsjournal.com) Photo by: Richard Morin

If America’s present system of political economy were performing well, there would be little need to question it or seek fundamental...

[title] YES! Online: The New Economy
Website by YES! Magazine

A fair economy that works for people and the planet!