Compass — The emergent new economy

Good summary of the alternative economy movement. Lots going on beneath the radar of the media.

Wonderful and hopeful as all of this is, the problem with these hundreds of emerging schools of thought, practice, movements and initiatives is that few of them seem to be aware of each other, let alone collaborating and cross-fertilizing. No one seems to know how they do or don’t fit together, what kind of ecosystem they might create and how collectively they might have some answers to the reform of economics and politics.

Frustrated by this lack of clarity and in response to all this activity, a group of us have set up an initiative called the Real Economy Lab which hopes to map all this activity, to understand how it all fits together, what gaps in thinking and experimenting there may be, and to provide a space where these many initiatives can collaborate and coalesce into a global movement for change. 

We want to help dial up the voice of the 99% into the global debate about the future of economics and commerce. Perhaps the 1% are right to suspect that their time in control might need to cede to a wider collaboration with new insurgent movements of the 99%.

Compass

The emergent new economy
Joe

As Harvard’s Professor David Korten puts it “Imagine an economy in which life is valued more than money and power resides with ordinary people who care about one another, their community, and their natural environment. It is possible. It is happening. Millions of people are living it into being. Our common future hangs in the balance.”