Oct 23 2023 50 mins
In this episode of Collective Choices we talk about the BIG change that everything else depends on.
Dr. Jennifer Hinton is an ecological economist, sustainability researcher, educator and book author. She has worked with the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Lund University, Stockholm University and The Schumacher Institute. Her research focuses on the not-for-profit economic model.
We talk about:
- why we urgently need a new economic model as a way forward for society
- thinking outside the box when you're in the box
- the influence of the cold war trauma on the global economy
- capitalism vs communism, the false choice and the common mechanism
- why democracy is being rejected
- what to do with profit
- why are people locked in the current view, supporting a system that hurts them
- the myth of the free market
- the common economy and the elite economy
- Buddhist economics
- the role of fear
- the cost of wealth for the rest of us
- successful not-for-profit companies
- why growth is not that great and shrinking is good
- how to make the transition
- changing the meaning of success
- gaining value and meaningfulness
- will the young win this time?
- carbon coins
- the purpose economy
- limits to profit and pay gaps
Dr. Jennifer Hinton's website:
https://www.relationship-to-profit.net/
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