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On September 24th, Báyò Akómoláfé, David Abram, and Alex Forrester gathered in Great Barrington, MA for an evening of story, etymology, mischief, and the kind of questioning that does not resolve so much as it recruits. A sold-out audience of several hundred people joined for the in-person conversation. We are happy to share the full recording with…
Jeremy Lent’s ambitious new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, serves an important dual purpose: it diagnoses the deep flaws in our current economic and cultural paradigms while offering an inspiring roadmap for a different kind of civilization. Here’s what others are saying about Ecocivilization: “We need to think big—the crisis…
On Wednesday, October 14th Brent Ranalli delivered the 2nd Annual Common Wealth Lecture, titled “Sharing Income from Common Wealth: Thomas Paine’s Perfect Policy Proposal.” Drawing on fundamental economic thinking of Thomas Paine, the talk makes clear distinctions between what are appropriately private assets.produced by individual labor, and what belong to our collective inheritance including land, natural resources, and the…
“Since there is now increasing evidence of environmental deterioration, particularly in living nature, the entire outlook and methodology of economics is being called into question. The study of economics is too narrow and too fragmentary to lead to valid insights, unless complemented and completed by a study of meta-economics.”
– E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful