Change everything : creating an economy for the common good /: creating an economy for the common good. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie.
• Further Information: Note: Christian Felber ; translated by Susan Nurmi ; with a foreword by Eric Maskin.
• Authors: Felber, Christian
• Other Names: Nurmi, Susan translator.; Maskin, Eric writer of foreword.
• Contents: Front Cover ; More Praise for Christian Felber; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Eric Maskin; Preface; 1: A Broken System ; Human Values -- Values of the Economy ; Values Are Guiding Lights ; Turning Egoism into Common Good ; Dignity Is the Highest Good ; A Free Market? ; Trust Is More Important Than Efficiency ; The Consequences of the Pursuit of Profit and Competition: The Ten Crises of Capitalism ; 2: Defining the Economy for the Common Good; The Goal of Economic Activity ; Putting the System on a New Course. Redefining Economic Success Measure the Goal, Not the Means ; Measuring the Common Good ; Defining the Common Good ; Demands Made on a Universal Balance Sheet ; Create Market Transparency ; Rewarding Contributions to the Common Good ; Common Good Audits ; Profit as Means ; Permissible Uses of Profits ; Non-Permissible Uses of Profits ; The End of the Compulsion to Growth ; Optimal Size ; Structural Cooperation ; Bankruptcy ; Cooperative Market Regulation ; The Common Good and Globalization ; Social Security and Work Leaves ; Solidarity Income ; Secure Pensions ; 3: The Democratic Bank. Goals and Services Transparency and Security ; Financing, Refinancing, Bankruptcy ; Interest and Inflation ; Social and Ecological Credit Assessment ; Eco-Social Venture Capital and Common Good Stock Markets; Subsidiarity, Democracy, Regulation, Transparency ; Relationship to Private Banks ; The Central Bank and Global Cooperation ; Global Currency Union and Globo ; Regional Money ; Conclusion ; What Are We Waiting for?; 4: Property; Negative Feedback ; Limitation of Income Inequity ; Restriction of Private Assets ; Democratization of Corporations ; Employee Participation. Retaining Profits in Companies Restriction of the Right to Inherit, Generations Fund and "Democratic Dowry"; Real Estate ; Inheritance of Enterprises ; Endowments ; "Democratic Commons"; Ownership of Nature ; Liberty and Equality ; 5: Motivation and Meaning; Motivation ; Meaning ; Childrearing and Education ; 6: Advancing Democracy; We Are the Sovereign! ; Expansion of the Separation of Powers ; A Three-Step Direct Democracy; Separation of Constituent and Constitutional Power ; An Economic Convention ; A Convention on Education ; A Public Services Convention ; A Media Convention. A Democracy Convention A Three-Pillar Democracy; 7: Real World Examples; 1. Mondragón -- The World's Largest Cooperative (In the Basque Region of Spain); 2. Sekem -- Organic Farming in the Desert (Egypt); 3. Göttin Des Glücks ("Goddess of Fortune") and Craft Aid -- Eco-Fair Textiles (Mauritius/Austria); 4. Fair Trade -- Appreciating the People Behind the Products (58 Producing Countries) ; 5. SEMCO -- "Industrial Democracy" (Brazil); 6. Community-Supported Agriculture (USA and Worldwide); 7. Regionalwert AG -- Regional Equity Capital (Germany).
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.9; Economic policy; Fiscal policy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; Economic policy; Fiscal policy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783604746; 1783604743; 9781783604753; 1783604751; 1783604735; 9781783604739; 1783604727; 9781783604722; 9781783604760
• Related ISBNs: 178360476X; 9781783604739; 9781783604722
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2015).
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