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OneGrassRoot

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Wed Jun 20, 2012, 04:18 PM Jun 2012

Building the New Economy: Ten Steps We Can Take Now

How to choose people, place, and planet over profit, product, and power

by James Gustave Speth (originally at Yes! Magazine)
posted Jun 18, 2012

First, some definitions. I think we can define the new economy as one where the overriding purpose of economic life is to sustain and to strengthen People, Place, and Planet, and is no longer to grow Profit, Product (as in gross domestic), and Power.

And a new politics? No surprises here. A new politics in America is one that replaces today’s creeping corporatocracy and plutocracy with true popular sovereignty.

Well, then, let’s explore how we can begin the process of transformation to a new economy and a new politics. This afternoon, I want to offer 10 steps we can take now that would start us on our journey. Time is short, so here they are.

Step 1

The journey to a new political economy begins when enough Americans have come to two important conclusions. The first is that something is profoundly wrong with our current political economy—the operating system on which our country now runs. That system is now routinely generating terrible results—failing us socially, economically, environmentally, and politically. When big problems emerge across the entire spectrum of national life, as they surely have in our country, it cannot be for small reasons. We have encompassing problems because of fundamental flaws in our economic and political system. The second conclusion follows from the first. It is the imperative of system change, of building a new political economy that routinely delivers good results for people, place and planet.


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Building the New Economy: Ten Steps We Can Take Now (Original Post) OneGrassRoot Jun 2012 OP
lotta windy rhetoric, could use a good editor though, like a caption after each number msongs Jun 2012 #1

msongs

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1. lotta windy rhetoric, could use a good editor though, like a caption after each number
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 04:37 PM
Jun 2012

identifying what each step actually is in less than 4 million words lol

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