Guess post from PEL's Community Capital Working Group Member Sandhya Nakhasi of Community Credit Lab. Full post can be viewed here. Summary A little over a year ago, Community…
In pursuit of an economy that puts people and places first and the need to give communities more control over capital, People’s Economy Lab convened 21 local leaders to workshop…
Will von Geldern is Director of Advocacy and Communications at Ventures and is a People’s Economy Lab Leader Earlier this year, we wrote about our work to build an economy that is truly…
An economic system should provide a social foundation of well-being, and that no one should fall below that baseline. It also sets a ceiling of ecological damage to our planet that we should not cross. Between the two lies the doughnut itself, a safe and just space for all.
A new report shows that people largely don’t understand the economy and believe its a force of nature rather than something we created and can change. But all hope is not lost, tapping into key concerns can like inequality, power, and fulfillment and using promising frames like reprogramming or laying new tracks can open up space for reframing the economy as a human creation that we can make better.
