The Mission Economics project opens the door to a lot of what needs to happen in the realm of economics globally at this critical time. I see some serious limitations, though, which I hope to explore further in the community. Here is what comes up for me reading this post:
How inclusive are the vision of the "common good” and the aspiration to include “all voices"? Do they include the needs and voices from beyond-the-modern-mode, and from the more-than-human realms and future generations? Do they embrace greater diversity than male/female and North/South and humble, honest inquiry and infrastructure to hear and take seriously ALL voices, or at least ALL perspectives and interests on this planet? Is this project aware of the many efforts and approaches to do all these things that exist already?
How deep will you/we dig into global economic dynamics that drive injustice, climate change, and all forms of social and ecological disaster? Will you/we acknowledge that GDP privileges monetary value over the values and needs of life itself? Will we reveal how the sources of national debt in the global south are overwhelmingly for infrastructural development projects that are then used to enable extractive activities that benefit Northern and Western corporate interests (and local elites) far more than to enhance the common good of the citizens and ecosystems of those countries, whose welfare becomes secondary to servicing those debts which benefit the Northern- and Western-dominated global banks?
Will this project have the insight and courage to shift the economic paradigm sufficiently to become grounded in responsibility to steward the regenerative capacities of life on this finite planet more than to empower its currently terminal pursuit of endless monetary growth, concentration of financial capital, and mass extraction, consumption, waste and toxicity?
Are we actually willing to explore what economies - and economic theories and practices - are FOR? - in whose interests, according to what values, by what means, and with what impacts, checks and balances? How much of Reality are we able, willing, committed enough to try to embrace at this critical time?
There are many general principles for all this in the wisdom-generating, participatory political economy vision of the Wise Democracy Project and Wise Democracy Pattern Language https://wd-pl.com of the Co-Intelligence Institute https://co-intelligence.institute.
The Mission Economics project opens the door to a lot of what needs to happen in the realm of economics globally at this critical time. I see some serious limitations, though, which I hope to explore further in the community. Here is what comes up for me reading this post:
How inclusive are the vision of the "common good” and the aspiration to include “all voices"? Do they include the needs and voices from beyond-the-modern-mode, and from the more-than-human realms and future generations? Do they embrace greater diversity than male/female and North/South and humble, honest inquiry and infrastructure to hear and take seriously ALL voices, or at least ALL perspectives and interests on this planet? Is this project aware of the many efforts and approaches to do all these things that exist already?
How deep will you/we dig into global economic dynamics that drive injustice, climate change, and all forms of social and ecological disaster? Will you/we acknowledge that GDP privileges monetary value over the values and needs of life itself? Will we reveal how the sources of national debt in the global south are overwhelmingly for infrastructural development projects that are then used to enable extractive activities that benefit Northern and Western corporate interests (and local elites) far more than to enhance the common good of the citizens and ecosystems of those countries, whose welfare becomes secondary to servicing those debts which benefit the Northern- and Western-dominated global banks?
Will this project have the insight and courage to shift the economic paradigm sufficiently to become grounded in responsibility to steward the regenerative capacities of life on this finite planet more than to empower its currently terminal pursuit of endless monetary growth, concentration of financial capital, and mass extraction, consumption, waste and toxicity?
Are we actually willing to explore what economies - and economic theories and practices - are FOR? - in whose interests, according to what values, by what means, and with what impacts, checks and balances? How much of Reality are we able, willing, committed enough to try to embrace at this critical time?
There are many general principles for all this in the wisdom-generating, participatory political economy vision of the Wise Democracy Project and Wise Democracy Pattern Language https://wd-pl.com of the Co-Intelligence Institute https://co-intelligence.institute.