Reclaiming Capital
Patrick Noble makes a case for capitalism - assuming that 'capital' is taken to mean 'spiritual, pleasurable and human assets, combined with that which maintains all those things'.
steady state
Basic income now: a high-leverage system intervention for sanity, humanity and ecology
This paper by Anne Ryan makes the case for basic income as a key policy instrument for addressing our problems, and is an introduction to a series of forthcoming blog posts that will include excerpts from, and up-to-date commentary on, her book Enough is Plenty.
The Steady State Economy Conference: “Working towards an Alternative to Economic Growth”
Organised by Economic Justice for All and The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Date and Time: Saturday 19th June 2010 from 10 AM to 6 PM
Venue: Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
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Barcelona Degrowth Conference
Date and Time: 26th – 29th March 2010
Venue: University of Barcelona, Plaça Universitat, Barcelona, Spain
Details at http://www.degrowth.eu/v1/
Feasta members conducted three workshops at this conference. They were on non-debt money systems, on financing arrangements compatible with a static or shrinking economy, and on economic democracy. You can download the steering papers for their workshops by clicking on the underlined words. The slides Richard Douthwaite showed during his talk are here.…
