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Economic Theory Conferences
Strategies for a New Economy: 2012 Conference
Bard College, in Annandale-Hudson, NY
June 8-10 2012
GDAE will be co-sponsoring a conference organized by the New Economics Institute. The conference will include over 60 workshops, plenary gatherings, and participatory strategizing sessions organized in 10 theme areas (see below). "Strategies for a New Economy" will highlight best research and best practice under each theme and demonstrate that a decentralized, sustainable, cooperative economy is already taking shape, offering a strategy for action.
Registration fees include single room accomodation in campus dorms and all meals. Registration begins at 11AM on Friday, June 8th. The opening plenary session is at 3PM. The conference continues through lunch on Sunday, June 10th. Registration fees are $650 with dining and lodging. Registration without lodging is $500. To register, please visit The New Economics Institute's registration site.
“Strategies for a New Economy” Conference Themes
1. Visioning and Modeling the New Economy: Shared Prosperity within Planetary Limits
2. Banking and Financing a New Economy: Scale, Criteria, Innovation
3. Measuring Well Being: Alternative Indicators of Wealth and Progress
4. Messaging the New Economy: Education, Media, Public Campaigns
5. Rebuilding Local Economies: Engines for Resilience
6. Reimagining Ownership and Work: Coops, Stakeholders, Corporate Structure
7. Responsive Government for a New Economy: Politics as if People and Planet Mattered
8. Sharing the Commons: Identifying, Allocating, Restoring
9. Sustainable Production and Consumption: Simplicity, Sufficiency, Abundance
10. Transforming Money: Structuring, Issuing and Valuing New Mediums of Exchange
Rationale:
We are living in a time of multiple crises, including crises of inequality, climate-related natural disasters, and rapidly growing shortages of essential resources such as water. These all point to the urgent requirement for new ways of organizing our economy, to make it responsive to human needs and sensitive to ecological limits.
Many individuals, projects and organizations have been responding to this requirement, most evidently on the local level. Land trusts and local agriculture movements, community development finance, impact investing, worker-owned firms, and new municipal enterprises – these are among the initiatives that are actively rebuilding communities.
It is not yet fully recognized that these emerging responses are parts of a unified phenomenon, but the next steps can now be perceived: to strengthen and connect local new economy movements, and to modify the larger economies – regional, national and global – to make them hospitable to the new possibilities. We cannot know how far the macro-economic modifications will need to go before we have turned capitalism into a system for long-term support of human and ecological thriving – but it is wonderfully exciting to be at the beginning of this path.
"Strategies for a New Economy" will to raise to a new level the intellectual and practical vision of a new economy, and build momentum for the many parts of a powerful emerging movement. It will bring together the diversity of already engaged individuals and groups: youth, educators, citizen activists, business leaders, financial experts, scientists, union workers, cultural leaders, politicians, researchers, media, and advocates for the disenfranchised.
The conference will feature speakers from a range of organizations. For details, please click here.
Information about past GDAE events can be found here.
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