Economists Flashcards
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Christian Felber
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Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good
It is a catastrophe that we have developed an economic system that is so oppositional to the deep cultural values of care for the common good.
Capitalist Man is a psychopath/sociopath.
Ethical market based economy.
Common Good Balance Sheet - A method to measure an organization’s contribution to the democratically agreed upon benefits to the common good.
Felber and others have an org. To date, 800 organizations have signed on to use the Common Good Balance Sheet.
Ethical economic system should serve 5 principal values:
- Human dignity
- Solidarity
- Justice
- Ecological sustainability
- Democracy
