Posts tagged with: Alternative Economics

Economic Justice at BYM 2012

May 28, 2012 – 9:01 am by gillwestcott

Posted in Yearly Meeting 2012

Economic Justice, and a New Economy were the focus of two sessions of Britain Yearly Meeting this weekend. David Cadman urged that “the economy” is not an absolute, independent of values and ideology. (cf Adrian Beacroft’s assertion that critics of his proposed relaxation of employment law were coming from ideology and not economics!) Growth does [...]

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BYM “A good Economy”

May 28, 2012 – 8:56 am by gillwestcott

Posted in Yearly Meeting 2012

The special interest group on an alternative economy was arranged by the ‘Economics, Sustainability and Peace’ committee of QPSW. It had felt important to imagine what an alternative economy might look like, and what policies and actions would contribute to its arrival. I suggested that a ‘good economy’ might well be called a democratic economy: [...]

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