I have now watched a TED talk on this topic twice and can’t help but respond. Ecological economist Marjan Van Den Belt is right when she says “we are mindlessly addicted to economic growth, we are growth junkies.” She advocates reciprocity in economies and says that is the key to a circular, sharing, regenerative economy. So far so good. Continue reading “Which do you fancy – Economic Growth or Financial Collapse?”
Continue reading “Sarah vs the Govt – thoughts after first day in court on climate targets”
If you want to design a political economy that works, you actually have to go to the roots. That means the money system the tax system, the welfare system and the governance system. So I was shocked to read the six winning essays in The Next System’s essay competition to discover that so few of them had addressed the money system or the tax system. Continue reading “Designing a new economy without addressing money system or tax system is futile”
Today I found a photo from the launch of my book Healthy Money Healthy Planet –Developing Sustainability through New Money Systems and I post it here. It was a good book, took a long time to write and Helen has sold a great many through Living Economies shop. Continue reading “Two books ten years apart and the theme is the commons”
Helen told me she only has 7 copies left out of 42 so that means there have been quite a few sales. Continue reading “Book selling well and I have my first meeting arranged”
Anneleise Hall interviewed me on Access Radio Christchurch. It is a 20 min interview that gets up speed as it goes. http://www.accessradio.org/ProgrammePage.aspx?PID=0454b139-aa11-442d-8479-8f585336c885
The Big Shift: Rethinking Money, Tax, Welfare and Governance for the Next Economic System by Deirdre Kent
This important little book is a very dense read. The current growth-dependent economic system is not only broken must be completely replaced with a new paradigm. Continue reading “Summary of The Big Shift: Rethinking Money, Tax, Welfare and Governance for the Next Economic System”
So great plans to get to Lyttelton early didn’t work out because of the fog at the airport, in fact fog all over Wellington, most unusual. Lots of people going to the Expo are similarly trapped, some going tomorrow and some the day after. Here is the programme. I don’t get there till Friday now.
That gives me an extra day to practise my talk and work on this website.
This next weekend I will be presenting at the Lyttelton Living Economies Expo. I have a 35 min powerpoint to illustrate and summarise my book.
I am taking down books where there will be a special Expo price. From then on the book will be sold by Helen Dew. It will available from the Living Economies website shop.livingeconomies.nz