A New Economy -- Diverse and Innovative

On the ground in the field of Eco-nomics

A Coalition, a Network, New Economy Models

The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is an American nonprofit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, formerly known as the New Economics Institute. It is a network of over 100 organizations working for what it describes as the "New Economy Movement".

New Economics Institute

The roots of the NEC lay with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (formerly the E.F. Schumacher Society) which was founded in 1980. In 2010, the NEC partnered with the New Economics Foundation (NEF) to create a new organisation called the New Economics Institute to promote alternative economic models.

New Economics Network

The New Economics Network was created by Sarah Stranahan in 2009 as a loose network of about two hundred organizations working for the 'new economy'. In a lecture for the National Council for Science and the Environment Gus Speth said the organisation wanted to create a sustainable and caring economy.

Rename and merger

In March 2012, Bob Massie became the president of the New Economics Institute. In 2013, the New Economics Institute merged with the New Economy Network and became the 'New Economy Coalition'. Also in that year, Dave Pruett writing for the Huffington Post described the organization as one of two "leading the way toward economic viability". Massie stepped down from being the coalition's president in October 2014. -- Via Wikipedia

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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."

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

Stiglitz: Democratic Party Needs New Economic Thinking

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/stiglitz-democratic-party-needs-new-economic-thinking

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-the-democrats-can-fix-themselves

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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

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If you’re a right-winger and believe in markets and I’m a left-winger and believe in democratic government, we’re not going to agree. I’m not going to change my mind and you’re not going to change your mind, but we could come up with a public-private partnership through debate that’s better than your idea or my idea. That’s a constructive use of disagreement.

--Van Jones, Author/Cable Commentator, December 2016

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Resources

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

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

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 (2012)

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

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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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How America's Largest Worker Owned Co-Op Lifts People Out of Poverty

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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