The political debate in the United States and Europe has focused attention on public financial deficits and how best to resolve them. Tragically, the debate largely ignores the deficits that most endanger our future. In the United States, as Republican deficit hawks tell the story, “America is broke. We must …
Living Economies — a talk with David Korten, co-founder of YES! Magazine and author of Agenda for a New Economy, on the relational shift to from a “Suicide Economy” to “Living Economies”; also relational advice for fathers this Fathers Day; also a Joycean celebration of Bloomsday (June 16th) in the Arts Corner. livingeconomiesforum.org Podcast: Play in …
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“Time is life.””As alert citizen groups are pointing out,” writes Korten, “the proposals being advanced would result in the ultimate commodification and financialization of nature for the short-term benefit of the same global profiteers who created the mortgage bubble that brought down much of the global economy in 2008.” With …