June 5th Founding Meeting

On June 5th the New Economics Institute held its founding meeting. Guests helped imagine the future of the Institute -- its vision, its programs, the urgency of its realization. Susan Witt presented opening remarks on the creation of the New Economics Institute. Members of the board of directors outlined future projects:

1. Launching a new economic model of an economy that works and thrives despite dwindling resources (Gus Speth).
2. Developing the Happy Planet Index as a better measure of success (Stewart Wallis).
3. Developing new economic teaching materials that break the stranglehold of the old economics (Neva Goodwin).
4. Using Vermont as a model for rebuilding our economies, one neighborhood at a time (Will Raap). [PDF]
5. Modeling new ownership options that change the meaning of work and the role of the worker (Gar Alperovitz).
6. Bringing the case for a new economics into mainstream thinking and action. (David Boyle).

Shifting mainstream economics is a huge task. It will take significant resources to accomplish. We need your support financially and we need your help telling the story of a new economics, raising awareness, and activating a movement of change.