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Resources: Living Wealth Indicators
Replace GDP with indicators of human health, social well-being, and ecological integrity.
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How the New Economy Works
What is the new economy all about and will it lead to new jobs? Fixing the Future examines these questions in a series of animated shorts called the "How...
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NEWGroup Launches Report on U.S. Money System Restructure
How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule is a report of the New Economy Working Group produced in collaboration with the New...
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Origionally published on The New Press.
The [financial] crisis is teaching us a very important lesson: those attempting to guide the economy and our societies are like pilots trying to steer a course without a reliable compass. — from Mismeasuring Our Lives
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May 30, 2008 Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post by Herman Daly, noted expert in the field of ecological economics and professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Daly sends a new economy response to Robert Samuelson's prescription for ending global poverty [op-ed,...
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Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives.
In this film produced by John de Graaf of Affluenza fame, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and highly-visual...
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The Happy Planet Index reveals the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered
The index combines environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which, country by country, people live long and happy lives. Learn about the ideas...
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Creating a new kind of economy is crucial if we want to tackle climate change and avoid the mounting social problems associated with the rise of economic inequality. The Great Transition provides the first comprehensive blueprint for building an economy based on stability, sustainability and...
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Peter Victor challenges the priority that rich countries continue to give to economic growth as an over-arching objective of economic policy. The challenge is based on a critical analysis of the literature on environmental and resource limits to growth, on the disconnect between higher incomes...
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Introduction:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the best known measure of macro-economic activity. Developed in the 1930s, GDP has become a standard benchmark used by policy-makers throughout the world and is widely used in public debates. GDP aggregates the value added of all money-based...