Posts written by Susan Seymour

Enough is Enough

February 3, 2011 – 11:27 am

The report on the Steady State Economics Conference held in Leeds last June is now available here: http://steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/ It is much more readable than most conference reports as the discussions in the workshops have been written up in a standard format. It covers a wide range of topics (see index page below). I found it [...]

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Qualitative Growth

February 21, 2010 – 9:44 pm

I can recommend a short, well-written paper by Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson called Qualitative Growth which is published, perhaps surprisingly, by the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Tomorrow’s Company, a business group. It sets out very clearly the fallacy that endless growth is natural. In nature living things grow to a natural size. Quantitative [...]

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Building an ethical economy: Does Theology Have a Role In Shaping a New Economy?

December 8, 2009 – 10:46 am

This event webcast live from the Trinity Institute in New York on 28/29 January to the St Pauls Institute in London seems very relevant to the Quakernomics debate. http://justshare.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/trinity-institute-invitation.pdf Does Theology Have a Role In Shaping a New Economy? At Trinity Institute’s 2010 Conference you’ll have an opportunity to help define the answer. Whatever happens [...]

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