Are there any websites you recommend that are following this discussion? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandwichman Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:08 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Enough is Enough
The report just came out a couple of weeks ago, so it would be too early to sum up its reception. What I see happening is a process of accretion of studies & reports like this -- Peter Victor's Managing without Growth, the Sustainable Development Commission's Prosperity without Growth report, Juliet Schor's Plenitude. People begin to see that there is not just ONE person or group saying these kinds of things but that it is a "discourse." On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Arthur Cordell <[email protected]> wrote: > What has been the reception to this very comprehensive and thoughtful > report and is there any follow up? > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandwichman > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 1:48 PM > To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION > Subject: [Futurework] Enough is Enough > > > > Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable > Economy in a World of Finite Resources > > http://steadystate.org/wp-content/uploads/EnoughIsEnough_FullReport.pdf > > Contents > Forewords > ............................................................................ ...................................... > 6 > Summary..................................................................... ............................................... > 9 > Part One: Questions of Enough > 1. Introduction > ............................................................................ ............................. > 20 > 2. How Much is Enough? > ............................................................................ ............ > 23 > 3. What Sort of Economy Provides Enough? > .......................................................... 33 > Part Two: Strategies of Enough > 4. Enough Throughput: Limiting Resource Use and Waste > Production................... 42 > 5. Enough People: Stabilising > Population................................................................ > 50 > 6. Enough Inequality: Distributing Income and > Wealth............................................ 57 > 7. Enough Debt: Reforming the Monetary > System.................................................. 64 > 8. Enough Poor Indicators: Changing the Way We Measure > Progress................... 73 > 9. Enough Job Losses: Securing > Employment........................................................ 80 > 10. Enough Excess Profits: Rethinking Business and > Production........................... 87 > 11. Enough Unilateralism: Addressing Global > Relationships................................... 95 > 12. Enough Materialism: Changing Consumer > Behaviour..................................... 101 > 13. Enough Silence: Engaging Politicians and the Media > ..................................... 106 > Part Three: Advancing the Economy of Enough > 14. A Blueprint for an Economy Built to Last > ......................................................... 112 > 15. Boldness in Building the Steady State > Economy............................................. 117 > Notes and > References.................................................................. .......................... > 121 > > A foreword by Lorna Arblaster and David Adshead > > Unlimited economic growth is not possible on a finite planet. Despite this, > there is > little discussion of an alternative economic system that can meet our needs > without > growth. The Steady State Economy Conference aimed to promote such > discussion. > In particular it aimed to identify practical policy proposals to bring about > change > towards a steady state economy in the UK. > > The conference took place on 19th June 2010. Three years earlier to the day, > we > collaborated with Claire Bastin to host the first Café Economique in a > suburb of > Leeds. Inspired by the concept of economic justice for all (and taking > that phrase > as the name of our organisation), we set out to develop a forum where > members of > the public could discuss socio-economic problems and consider innovative > solutions. > At the first Café Economique, Claire led a discussion on the topic of > Economics in a > Full World. The suggested background reading for the discussion was a paper > of > the same title, written by economist Herman Daly and published in Scientific > American. > > From this simple beginning, the number of people attending the monthly Café > Economique events has grown steadily, requiring us to move to larger venues. > How > have we achieved this continuing and increasing interest? We meet locally, > we > invite a speaker to inform the discussion, we use a format that encourages > attendee > participation, and we address a wide range of socio-economic issues. > In November 2009, Dan ONeill, the European Director of the Center for the > Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE), spoke at the Café > Economique. We took great interest in Dans ideas and the discussion that > they > generated, and together we recognised an opportunity to develop the concepts > further. The conference and this report are the result of this collaboration > between > Economic Justice for All and CASSE. > > The report, with its extensive set of references, is an excellent primer for > anyone > interested in the economics of sustainability. It also provides a valuable > information > resource for economic discussion and action groups, and we hope that it > will lead > to the creation of more such groups, in the UK and around the world. > Increasing awareness of the pressures on our fragile planet obliges us to > rethink > urgently how we organise our economic and social systems a complex and > challenging task. This report provides an overview of areas where change is > needed, specific proposals for change, and questions for further discussion. > > A small local group with few resources, Economic Justice for All dared, with > CASSE, > to organise the Steady State Economy Conference. We hope that you will dare > to > take forward the ideas in this report, whoever and wherever you are. > > > -- > Sandwichman > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
