REconomy
Co-op Directories | Food Co-op Initiative
Looking for a co-op forming near you? Food Co-op Initiative maintains a map of co-ops still in their organizational stage. Click on the map to see the full version. Cooperative Grocer Network maintains one of the most complete directories of US retail food co-ops. Co-ops: Stronger Together features an easy-to-use co-op search that also includes natural food suppliers and farmer's markets. Go.coop is maintained by National Cooperative Grocers Assocation. Find.coop is a Data Commons project maintained by the Cooperative Development Institute. Directory.coop allows users to search for organizations anywhere in the world registered with the .coop domain by name or address information.
Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century
Abstract This note describes a numerical simulation of a model of economic growth, a simplified version of Robert Tamura's (1996) model of world income dynamics, based on technology diffusion. The model makes predictions for trends in average world income growth and about the evolution of the relative income distribution that accord well with observation. The model is used to forecast the course of world income growth and income inequality over the century to come. Download Info If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Bibliographic Info Article provided by American Economic Association in its journal Journal of Economic Perspectives. Volume (Year): 14 (2000) Issue (Month): 1 (Winter) Pages: 159-168 Handle: RePEc:aea:jecper:v:14:y:2000:i:1:p:159-168 Note: DOI: 10.1257/jep.14.1.159Contact details of provider: Email: aeainfo@vanderbilt.eduWeb page: information through EDIRC Related research Keywords:
The Blue Economy
The Blue Economy: 10 years - 100 innovations - 100 million jobs is a book by Gunter Pauli. The book expresses the ultimate aim that a Blue Economy business model will shift society from scarcity to abundance "with what we have", by tackling issues that cause environmental and related problems in new ways. The book highlights potential benefits in connecting and combining seemingly disparate environmental problems with open-source scientific solutions based upon physical processes common in the natural world, to create solutions that are both environmentally beneficial and which have financial and wider social benefits. Background[edit] The book was written by Gunter Pauli as Founder and Director of Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives. The Blue Economy began as a project to find 100 of the best nature-inspired technologies that could affect the economies of the world, while sustainably providing basic human needs - potable water, food, jobs, and habitable shelter. See also[edit]
Solidarity economy
The definition of "solidarity economy" consists of activities organized to address and transform exploitation under capitalist economics, and can include diverse phenomena.[1] For some, it refers to a set of strategies and a struggle aimed at the abolition of capitalism and the oppressive social relations that it supports and encourages; for others, it names strategies for "humanizing" the capitalist economy—seeking to supplement capitalist globalization with community-based "social safety nets". The still evolving term "solidarity economy" is an English translation of a concept formally formulated in Lima, Peru in 1997 (economía solidaria), in Quebec in 2001,[2] and in Brazil during the World Social Forum of 2001, and in Portuguese as "economia solidaria".[3] It is also represented by the French "économie solidaire" and similar terms in several other languages. As such it is sometimes translated by other expressions such as "solidarity-based economy". Social and solidarity economy[edit]
Post-capitalism
Socialist economics and the socialist calculation debate concern the organization and functioning of a post-capitalist system. This subject encompasses alternatives for the major elements of a capitalist system, such as the wage and profit systems, market-based allocation, private ownership of the means of production, and the use of money as a measure of value; and critical analysis of post-capitalist economic models.[1] Arguments for post-capitalism[edit] In the Marxist method of analysis and theory of historical materialism, specific modes of production come into being as a result of underlying changes in the level of technology. Post-capitalist systems[edit] There are a number of proposals for a new economic system to replace capitalism. Socialism[edit] Technocracy[edit] Libertarian[edit] Voluntaryism, a philosophy of economics and social interaction derived from the non-aggression principle (NAP), the homestead principle and natural rights. Anarchism[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
WIR Bank
WIR Bank logo The WIR Bank, formerly the Swiss Economic Circle (GER: Wirtschaftsring-Genossenschaft), or WIR, is an independent complementary currency system in Switzerland that serves businesses in hospitality, construction, manufacturing, retail and professional services. WIR issues and manages a private currency, called the WIR Franc, which is used, in combination with Swiss Franc to generate dual-currency transactions. The WIR Franc is an electronic currency reflected in clients' trade accounts and there is no paper money. WIR was founded in 1934 by businessmen Werner Zimmermann and Paul Enz as a result of currency shortages and global financial instability. Although WIR started with only 16 members, today it has grown to include 62,000. as of 2005.[4] The currency code is CHW as designated by ISO 4217. The WIR Bank was a not-for-profit entity, although that status changed during the Bank's expansion.[5] It has a stable history, not prone to failure as the current banking system is.
Emergency Entrepreneurship & Economics of Happiness | the ecology of happiness
From Austerity and a Return to Poverty, Forward to Better and Richer Living… Much has been made of the economic troubles in Europe. Of course, high unemployment does not bode well, and high youth unemployment is even worse a burden. Bailing out banks and seeing their management return to getting bonus payments while social services and benefits are being cut hardly makes for a social (and economic) climate that inspires confidence. At the same time, one wonders what protests against austerity (or the American calls to invest anti-cyclically so as not to throttle off growth) are supposed to achieve – a return to the spending of money that isn’t really there, but only created out of thin air in the form of debt, to be repaid later, with interest? Two patterns, which might really be one, are eye-catching: Greece, as badly as it was hit by the crisis, shows something of this answer in the return of young people to their ancestral villages. Part 2, “Lessons,” here
New Economy Working Group | Equitable economies for a living earth.
Moral Economy Project
