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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…
What would it take to build a world that works for all, and where do we begin? Join us in Great Barrington, MA on October 24th at 3PM for the 46th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture with Jeremy Lent. Lent’s lecture will explore the concepts outlined in his recent book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All.…
“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