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To envision a just and regenerative global economy; apply the concepts locally; then share results for broad replication. 📫 https://t.co/3LkHZKW8zg

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@Center4NewEcon
Schumacher Center for a New Economics
11 months
The Schumacher Center is dedicated to gathering the rich decentralist tradition, continuing to bring the values of scale and sustainability into modern discourse, demonstrating that small is not only beautiful—it is a viable alternative.
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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RT @Center4NewEcon: BECOMING UNSETTLED: Why White Virtue Will Not Save Us, with Bayo Akomolafe and Erin Manning. Thursday, March 6th at 11A….
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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BECOMING UNSETTLED: Why White Virtue Will Not Save Us, with Bayo Akomolafe and Erin Manning. Thursday, March 6th at 11AM EST | Free Virtual Event. Join us at the tinkering edges of our shared unravelling. Learn more and register below⬇️.
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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"We can't get There from Here: Carbon, Climate, and the Call to Wonder" with @PaulHawken and Báyò Akómoláfé will be our 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture!. When: December 4, 2024 at 11AM EST.Where: Online via Zoom.Register for free using the link below.
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The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture will feature Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event will be hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher...
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@Center4NewEcon
Schumacher Center for a New Economics
9 months
The final public event in Bayo Akomolafe’s six-month W. E. B. Du Bois Fellowship with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics took place at St James Place in Great Barrington on September 11, 2024. Read excerpts and access the full video below.
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The final public event in Bayo Akomolafe’s six-month W. E. B. Du Bois Fellowship with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics took place at St James Place in Great Barrington on September 11, 2024....
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
10 months
Having raised the insufficiency of 'high tech' solutionism for poor and rural villages, and describing the promise of intermediate technology, in Chapter 13 Schumacher points to a fundamental error in prevailing economic theory. #SmallisBeautiful.
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Having raised the insufficiency of "high tech" solutionism for the world's poor and rural villages, and describing the promise of intermediate technology, in Chapter 13 Schumacher highlights a...
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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"To Be Thy Adam:" Agency, Activism & Collective Intelligence in the Ruins of the Human. Our September panel, featuring Bayo Akomolafe Alex Forrester Katherine Keller and Dougald Hine, is now online.
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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"The Earth must become the primary concern of every human institution, profession, program, and activity, including economics. ".
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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"The successful emergence of the Ecozoic Era can presently be considered the great creative task of the universe itself. ".— Thomas Berry, "The Ecozoic Era"
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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History of New Economic Thought, part 19. 1926 - The Distributist League. G. K. Chesterton was a founder of the Distributist League. Based on the principles of Catholic social teaching, it defended property ownership as a fundamental right for all.
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
10 months
Our #CommunityLandTrust Toolkit contains organizational and legal documents, providing information for starting a CLT in your own area. Our site offers free background, by-laws, articles of incorporation, lease agreements, and other material.
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In public talks and private discussions, Schumacher often pondered ‘the land question.’ An economic system that treats land as a commodity to be bought and sold on the market fails to foster the...
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
10 months
Schumacher's notion of "technology with a human face" implies for regenerative, local economic development:.- a regional focus for livelihoods.- an emphasis on lower capital-intensive facilities.- production primarily from local resources for local needs.
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Our chapter-by-chapter reading of David Boyle's study guide, "Small is Beautiful Revisited...50 Years On" continues, examining Schumacher's 1973 landmark text in light of our own time. Chapter 12...
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
11 months
"Germany, Italy and Japan, classifying themselves as “have-not” countries, are leading the march toward the totalitarian form of government, and. extremes of regimented economy. deliberately and strenuously organizing their people, their resources, and their industries"
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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The Decentralism File.#112 Van Dresser, Peter.The Technics of Decentralization (1938)
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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We continue our chapter-by-chapter reading of our study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On,” examining Schumacher’s 1973 text in light of our time. Chapter 11 deals with what Schumacher called “the central problem of development.”.
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We continue our chapter-by-chapter reading of David Boyle's study guide, "Small is Beautiful Revisited...50 Years On," which examines Schumacher's 1973 landmark text in light of our own time. Chapter...
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
11 months
Read "60 Years of the WIR Economic Circle Cooperative" (1994) by Heidi Defila, former Vice President of WIR, translated by Thomas Greco.
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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It was mainly the interest free WIR-credit for extra buying power that served to stimulate the turnover of goods. The clearing credits were kept interest-free, thus stifling any tendency to hoard WIR credits, and the WIR organization grew at an amazing rate.
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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"What do we want? - satisfying work, fair earnings and secured prosperity! This is what all working people strive for economically, and what they could and should all have . ". The WIR economic cooperative was founded 1934 in Zurich, motivated by the economic depression.
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