Living Economies
Our planet is already stretched to its limits and more than a billion people continue to live in hunger and poverty. The path of development has been unequal and unfair. While some enjoy excesses and unthinkable wealth, the majority has been excluded from the benefits of globalisation. This majority also bears most of the costs of our development path, for instance through pollution and destruction of nature, climate change and resources conflicts leading to mass migration and war and devastation of communities.
Goals
Our goal is to develop new economic thinking and governance recommendations built on respect and responsibility for natural and social wealth and fundamental human freedoms. These recommendations range from indicators to monitor “real” value developments and ownership models fostering democracy and equity to mechanisms guiding investments towards products and processes in line with the needs of people and planet.
Activities
The World Future Council is building an international network of multi-disciplinary experts, researchers and practitioners engaged in groundbreaking work in line with the Living Economies vision. The Living Economies Network will not only generate new thinking but also research how to design the necessary policy proposals and practices that will bring living economies into reality. This will be achieved through:
- Workshops among experts to debate and agree core principles for Living Economies;
- Print and online publications on theories and practice for Living Economies;
- Lists of Academic Ambassadors, course syllabuses and engagement at academic conferences
- Online presence to link with existing networks in all sectors of society;
- Non-academic training sessions and business engagement to give momentum for implementation
- Strategy workshops, coalition building and policy support during political summits;
- Regional strategy meetings bringing together academics, lawyers, civil society activists and policy makers
- Parliamentary hearings on policy solutions
Expert Commission Living Economies
Councillors:
IIbrahim Abouleish, Maude Barlow, Riane Eisler, Prof. Prabhu Guptara, Prof. Stephen Marglin, Prof. Manfred Max-Neef, Frances Moore-Lappé, Vithal Rajan, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Sulak Sivaraksa, Francisco Whitaker and Anders Wijkman
Advisors:
Prof. Margrit Kennedy, Anthony Simon and Hans Zulliger
