New Economy Journal

Volume 1

Volume 1, Issue 1

Welcome to the inaugural issue of NENA Journal! Months of work in the making, it’s a great pleasure to see the Journal finally launched, and we’re incredibly happy with the quality of the pieces we have the privilege to present. This first issue features personal stories about leaving the rat race, interviews with top federal...

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Volume 1, Issue 2

Welcome to issue 2 of the New Economy Journal! We are very pleased to present another excellent series of articles. Within them, we discover what New Economy Network Australia members have been up to; we hear from political parties, movement participants (including the School Strike 4 Climate group), nomads and historians; we also find deep...

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Volume 1, Issue 3

Welcome to Issue 3 of the New Economy Journal, our biggest yet! Within it, you will find election post-mortems, poetry, impassioned calls for climate activism and thoughtful discourse on population growth, employee ownership and the possibility of a zero marginal cost economy. As always, we hope you disagree with some, take hope from others, and...

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Volume 1, Issue 4

This month we’re joined by guest editor Dr. Michelle Maloney, for a special focus on ecological economics (EE). EE directly challenges the growth-paradigm of neo-classical economics, and although, as a field of research and inquiry, it has fragmented into a range of different approaches and techniques since it began to gain traction in the 1970s,...

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Volume 1, Issue 5

This month's NEJ is focused on young people - the creators and inheritors of the New Economy. We reached out to youth activists, peak bodies, new economy practitioners and writers to hear about their vision for the future, and are proud to present a collection of 12 articles that provoke, educate and inspire in equal measure....

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Volume 1, Issue 6

Welcome from the Editors Welcome to the first ever print edition of the New Economy Journal! Launched in April, we are the only Australian publication (and one of few world-wide) whose focus is the movement to build a new economy – an economy based on sustainability and social justice, rather than greed and destruction. Our...

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Volume 1, Issue 7

Welcome to Issue 7 of the New Economy Journal, our second last issue for 2019! This month’s instalment of the NEJ features a diverse series of pieces, from Jane R. Goodall’s careful deconstruction of UBI versus the Job Guarantee debate, to Thomas Whiteside’s profile of Harmony Cleaning, a contract-cleaning cooperative operated by Karen refugees. There’s...

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Volume 1, Issue 8

Welcome to issue 8, our last issue for 2019! It’s been a great year and we hope you enjoy this last iteration. Wonderful, diverse articles as always. We hope, of course, that you disagree with some, take hope from others, and learn from all about how to build a new, just, sustainable economy. Until next...

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