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Podcast: Rethinking Marketing
Dr Sarah Browne of Trinity Business School discusses the reasons why she moved away from teaching 'mainstream' marketing, ways in which academia can help to bring about a wellbeing economy, and her impressions of the Rethinking Growth conference. Interview with Seán Ó Conláin.
Podcast: Care and the Wellbeing Economy
Mark Garavan speaks with David Somekh about the power of dominant narratives and the need for a new vision of care.
Feasta's Mike Sandler was among the panellists at this event, which was part of the New York Climate Week.
Rethinking Growth: Towards a Wellbeing Economy for Ireland
Feasta co-hosted this conference on June 25 and 26 in Dublin which explored why a new economic approach is needed in Ireland, and how it will benefit people and planet.
Letter on Rethinking Growth in The Irish Times, by Mark Garavan

Webinar on the work of David Fleming

Feasta is delighted to offer the opportunity to engage with the inspirational thoughts of the late David Fleming – an original, radical thinker whose time seems to have come only after his death – in the company of the widely acknowledged expert on his work, Shaun Chamberlin.

Reclaiming Commons through Land Value Tax, or a Wing and a Prayer

Patrick Noble suggests some ways in which "ordinary people may steer a course back into history and with luck – a course towards a newly egalitarian and convivial culture." In particular he focusses on basic income combined with a land value tax, as he believes these two initiatives could together "provide the simplest, most elegant regenerative tool for social justice."

CapGlobalCarbon and basic income: How could climate action be coupled to economic empowerment?

A global basic income, funded from commons-based revenue including the revenue from CapGlobalCarbon, could help to heal the divisions that are currently plaguing us. By Caroline Whyte.

Specialisation and trade – David Ricardo versus Frederich List

In this chapter of Credo, Brian Davey explores the historical roots of the theory that free trade is inherently beneficial, and describes seven factors that tend to be left out of arguments in favour of free trade.

2016 Annual Report

Our latest Annual Report is online now. It includes updates on our projects, events, publications, submissions and other activities in 2016. (PDF format, 2.7 MB)

Helicopter Money and Helicopter Books for the March for Science

In his latest Huffington Post article, Feasta trustee and climate group member Mike Sandler urges support for scientific literacy in the current climate of anti-intellectualism. You can read more here.…

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