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Building a Wellbeing Economy: Foundations for Learning and Practice

Building a Wellbeing Economy: Foundations for Learning and Practice

Building a Wellbeing Economy: Foundations for Learning and Practice

28 October - 16 December 2020, weekly classes

28 October - 16 December 2020, weekly classes

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A question for the treasurer: how do you treat mental health without measuring well-being?

Posted onOctober 13, 2020December 2, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg mocked the idea of a “well-being budget” as “laughable” back in February. He’s got less reason to laugh now. According to an Essential Research poll last week, 78% of Australians agree the pandemic has exposed flaws in the economy and there is Read More …

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Thinking economists are grappling with why their profession has made our lives worse

Posted onSeptember 24, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

by Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald Most economists are great believers in the need for “reform” – for other people, not themselves. Over the past 30 or 40 years, no profession has had more influence over the policies governments have pursued, but the results have Read More …

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Provisioning Systems for a Good Life Within Planetary Boundaries

Posted onSeptember 9, 2020Authorlizadmin1 Comment

by Andrew L.Fanning, Daniel W.O’Neill and Milena Büchs The concept of provisioning systems has recently emerged as a promising way to understand the differences between levels of resource use and social outcomes observed across societies. However, the characteristics of provisioning systems remain poorly understood. Here, Read More …

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Germany Starts Universal Basic Income Trial

Posted onAugust 28, 2020August 30, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

by Arjun Walia, Collective Evolution Germany is starting a universal basic income trial where volunteers will get a $1400 dollar payment every single month as part of a study that will compare the experiences of 120 volunteers who receive it to 1,380 people who won’t. Read More …

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‘It’s a very big picture vision’: Work underway for a national civil society strategy (from Pro Bono Australia)

Posted onJuly 31, 2020July 31, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

by Luke Michael, Pro Bono Australia An Australian cooperative is developing a national civil society strategy to help build a more sustainable future and connect ordinary citizens with a shared vision for a better economy. The New Economy Network Australia (NENA) – a network of Read More …

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Ecological Economics: Solutions for the Future

Ecological Economics: Solutions for the Future

Posted onJuly 14, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

This book arose from the 2019 Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics Conference held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in November 2019. Its focus is on finding solutions within ecological economics to help reach a sustainable future. Its seventeen chapters range from the future Read More …

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Pandemic Solidarity leads off FireWorks series

Posted onJune 22, 2020June 22, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

An amazing new book, Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis, leads off the new Pluto Press FireWorks series. Read more and purchase a copy of the book at Pandemic Solidarity.

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Limit growth: liberate degrowth

Posted onMay 19, 2020May 19, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson, openDemocracy Degrowth stands for quality of life within planetary limits. This is the real opposite of capitalist growth. Degrowth is to growth as quality is to quantity, totally different. Growth is pure quantity: it is quality neutral. It is Read More …

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Ten threats to humanity’s survival identified in Australian report calling for action

Posted onApril 22, 2020AuthorlizadminLeave a comment

by Lisa Cox, The Guardian Governments should use the urgency of the Covid-19 pandemic to address 10 potentially catastrophic threats to the survival of the human race, according to a report by a collection of prominent Australian researchers and public figures. A report by a Read More …

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