New Economy Movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economy_Coalition

The New Economy movement is often referred to as just 'new economy'. It considers that the current economic system needs to be restructured. The theory is based on the assumption that people and the planet should come first, and that it is human well-being, not economic growth, which should be prioritized. It draws on an aggregate of alternative economic thought that challenges the fundamental assumptions of mainstream neoclassical and Keynesian economics. Some of the approaches it includes a ecological economics, solidarity economy, commons, degrowth, systems thinking and Buddhist economics.

Gar Alperovitz described the New Economy movement as “... a far-ranging coming together of organizations, projects, activists, theorists and ordinary citizens committed to rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up." In 2009, Sarah van Gelder wrote, “The new economy is about increasing quality of life, improving health, and restoring the environment."

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It is long past time to extend the concept of democracy to our economy... an economic democracy where the people making up the economy decide how the economy works. This must include options for community and worker ownership, where the wage scales, disposition of profits and decisions about technology and environmental impact are made by the people who have to live with those decisions. -- Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, July 2016

http://www.garalperovitz.com/2012/05/the-rise-of-the-new-economy-movement/

http://www.thenation.com/article/new-economy-movement/ (2011)

http://www.alternet.org/story/155452/the_rise_of_the_new_economy_movement (2012)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gar-alperovitz/the-rise-of-the-new-econo_b_1532549.html (2012)

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-rise-of-the-new-economy-movement

http://www.resilience.org/resource-detail/2353188-weaving-the-community-resilience-and-new (2015)

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Getting to the Next System: Guideposts on the Way to a New Political Economy by Gus Speth (2015)

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/GettingToTheNextSystem_Gus_Speth.pdf

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Eco-nomics

http://www.neweconomics.org

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Via Yes! Magazine - David Korten / 2001 ... Reclaiming the Commons

Via Sojourners / 2013 ... Reclaiming the Commons

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Community-Wealth generation - Democracy Collaborative / ... Reclaiming the Commons

http://democracycollaborative.org/

https://twitter.com/democracycollab

Resources for practitioners and policy makers working to build community wealth and a new economy

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June 2014

Gar Alperovitz (note relation to Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day) - Video Keynote at the AAAS Climate Change Summit / American Association for the Advancement of Science's Summit on Climate Change Resilience and Governance

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Next System Project - http://democracycollaborative.org/content/next-system-project

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http://democracycollaborative.org/publications

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Community-wealth generation focus areas:

Democratization of Wealth

Community Wealth Cities

Community Wealth InfoGraphics

Community Wealth Interviews

Community Wealth Map

Wealth Videos

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Anchor Institutions

The Cleveland Model

Community Development Corporations (CDCs)

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)

Land Trusts (CLTs)

Cooperatives (Co-ops)

Cross-Sectoral

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

Green Economy

Individual Wealth Building

Individual Wealth Preservation

Local Food Systems

Municipal Enterprise

New State & Local Policies

Outside the U.S.

Program Related Investments

Reclaiming the Commons

Social Enterprise

Responsible Investing

State Asset Building Initiatives

State and Local Investments

Transit Oriented Development

University & Community Partnerships

Worker Cooperatives

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