Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good (Hardcover)

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Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good (Hardcover)

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Few people would contest that modern capitalism comes with major costs: it damages the environment, harms workers, and increases inequality, to name just a few. Yet we’re told time and again that those are simply inevitable side effects of the constant need for profit and growth—and that while they may be regrettable, there’s no other way.

Christian Felber disagrees. In Change Everything, he lays out a wholly new vision for a humane economic model—the Economy for the Common Good, or ECG. Not just an idea, but a rapidly growing international movement, ECG is a practical, detailed blueprint for a new way of doing business, a people-centered approach that could sweep away austerity, support human (and humane) development, repair our damaged environment, and utterly reorient our relationship to work, money, and the purpose of both. Its vision is just short of breathtaking, but it remains grounded in reality, as evidenced by the fact that more than 1,700 companies around the world have already endorsed its principles.

Nothing less than a call to re-examine all that we’ve ever been told about how economies work, Change Everything is a ringing manifesto for a new, better age.
Christian Felber is an economist and university lecturer and the founder of the ECG movement.

Product Details ISBN: 9781783604739
ISBN-10: 1783604735
Publisher: Zed Books
Publication Date: August 15th, 2015
Pages: 192
Language: English
“Christian Felber has written that rare article: the genuine game-changer. Easy to read, irrefutable in its principles and comprehensive in its proposals, it's a how-to guide to a better world. At last, it's in English. Don't miss it.”
— Susan George, author of Whose Crisis? Whose Future?

“A timely and important new vision for the purpose of economic activity, moving away from the private accumulation of wealth and towards the common good. A must read for business leaders, economists, activists, civil servants and politicians if we are to have any chance of creating an economy that meets the needs of people and the planet.”

— Duncan McCann, New Economics Foundation

“This book is required reading for anyone interested in a stronger and more equitable economy. . . . Essential.”
— Choice

“Felber and his associates have created ‘The Economy for the Common Good,’ a utopian vision of society based on community values where altruism is rewarded and political and economic power returned to the people. In Change Everything Felber lays out a plan for this new society, based on the idea that ‘all economic activity should serve the common good.’ . . . Finishing it, I found myself wanting to live somewhere where the Economy for the Common Good applies, and eager to follow up this book with some action.”
 
— Peace News