Can humanity thrive without destroying the planet? It all depends on your representation of the economic purpose, says Kate Raworth, a “renegade economist” working at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World
Organized around exchange-value, not use-value, the capitalist system is over-productive and steadily worsening a multi-faceted ecological crisis. Is a post-growth, post-capitalist world conceivable?
Why Regenerative Economics Is the Future
Mechanistic and detached from life’s creative web of interactions, the conventional model of economic development is failing our societies on all counts. What would an organic view of the economy look like?
Supernova: The Stellar Transformation
Thanks to the technologies we already have, we could step out of the extractive economic system that has shaped our world and our behaviors for millennia. What would this mean from a collective and a personal standpoint, respectively?
A Poison Tree: Toxic Outputs
In an extractive economic world driven by the growth imperative, you cannot afford to slow down. It is a balance in imbalance: Go too fast and toxic outputs will overwhelm you; too slow and others will crush you.