Socio-Economic Transformation
How can economic progress and social wellbeing be recoupled, ranging from critically assessing the growth imperative of modern capitalist societies to imagining alternative economic practices?
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The current economic system contributes to environmental degradation, rising inequality, falling solidarity, and political polarization. It is proving unfit for meeting social needs within planetary boundaries. Humanity’s collective future depends on transforming our practices of value creation so that they serve social and planetary wellbeing.
LATEST
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internal event
Capitalism and Crises
–We are excited to host this workshop at THE NEW INSTITUTE from June 5-6 exploring the prospects of recoupling moral and economic progress by way of both democratic and economic measures.
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editorial
The Good-Enough LifeOur fellow Avram Alpert on his latest book about accepting our limitations and leading more fulfilling lives.
Avram Alpert | Socio-Economic Transformation | Measuring Prosperity |
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editorial
The Earth4All Wellbeing IndexFive wellbeing economy principles for the world
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Policy Brief
Real WealthOur colleague Katharina Lima de Miranda on designing new measures of economic and social wellbeing beyond GDP. A policy brief for the G7.
Socio-Economic Transformation | Think7 | Measuring Prosperity |
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Policy Brief
Data RevolutionOur fellows Dennis Snower and Paul Twomey on shifting control of personal data from data aggregators to digital consumers. A policy brief for the G7.
Dennis Snower | Paul Twomey | Socio-Economic Transformation | Think7 |
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interview
Money is a Cultural ToolVienne Chan on Social Cohesion.
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interview
The Human ScaleDennis Snower on True Prosperity
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Policy Brief
The Food of the FutureOur fellow Corine Pelluchon on why we need to rethink the way we produce and consume what we eat. A Policy Brief for the G7.
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Policy Brief
Carrots and SticksOur fellow Ingo Venzke on an international alliance for transformative and inclusive climate action. A policy brief for G7.
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conference
Prosperity Within Planetary BoundariesThe Think7 Inception Conference.
Curatorial Note
Curatorial Note
Paul Kolling, WB190621 No. 1-21, 2020 © Foto: Maik Graef
Paul Kolling researches emerging technologies to rearrange them, to (re)appropiate them, to reveal new perspectives that can be obscured through complexity and rhetoric. Through this interest, he creates cartographies of the imaginary, and the reality hidden behind technospheres of power. Kolling does not only work on installations and hybrid objects that strive to make complicated issues accessible, but also collectively towards decentralized technological systems. He is one third of terra0.org, a research group exploring the creation of hybrid ecosystems. His series 'Westbound-190621' which recreates China’s Silk Road. The artist strapped a GPS to a train departing on one of its stations – from Zhenzhou to Hamburg – and gathered satellite imagery of the entire journey. Thus 'Westbound-190621' reveals one possible reason for China’s reticence in naming specific routes: the presence of Uyghur work camps. By mapping the blurred outlines of China’s Belt and Road, "Westbound 190621 (1.968-3936)" hints at the ways art can expose systems of control in politized territories, social environments, and economic alliances.