NewEconomyCardDeck Wiki
The New Economy Card Deck Wiki is intended to allow everyone, regardless of prior expertise or familiarity, to play with the kinds of thinking that is going on between transformational economists who are looking closely and critically at our existing economic paradigm and exploring both small tweaks and wholesale alternatives.
Each card in the deck describes an economic concept in simple terms. The cards make economic design elements tangible and accessible in order to facilitate games and “what if” questions — such as “what if the world actually worked like this…how would it change my professional practice, my life, my world?”
The intention is for people to begin to see the economy as a design problem we can solve rather than an unquestioned paradigm that we simply have to accept and attempt to survive within — and then move beyond that into thinking how we can, in our lives, begin to shift into the new patterns we now see as possible and preferable.
This is intended as a collaborative process, with plenty of room for dialogue, development of new cards and alternative starter decks for specific audiences, along with deeper data and resources, and exploration of real world efforts to implement some aspect of this new economy. Again, the Deck is meant to make economic concepts accessible to all, not provide a final answer as to what such a new economy looks like or is called.
Whether seeking a "Local Economy", a "Sustainable Economy," a "Living Economy," a "Slow Economy," a "Sacred Economy," or something else, the more we talk about these concepts and try them out in practice the more we all can begin to make an economy that supports the things we care about.
Starter Deck Cards:
- Change What We Tax
- Price Energy Accurately
- Recognize Nature's Economy
- Make the Polluter Pay
- Measure What Matters
- Value the Future
- Limit Concentrated Power
- Work Less, Have More Fun
- Grow Resilient Local Economies
- Create Cooperatives
- Realize Our Vast Wealth Together
- Value Basic Needs
- Create a Thriving No-Growth Economy
- Ensure a Fair Share
New Economy Cards
- Pay for Depleting the Commons (Mar 2015 version of this title is "Compensate Citizens for Depletion")
- Consider Resource Productivity (Mar 2015 version of this title is "Measure Resource Productivity")
- Some Things Have No Substitute
- Tame the Bubble EconomyIdeas: Reinstate the economic regulations of Eisenhower era which recognized limits on the financial sector. <insert ideas from Korten & others about how>
Tax any activity that adds little or nothing to the commonwealth but is potentially very dangerous to the commonwealth, notably high-stakes speculation (swaps, derivatives, computerized stock transactions, etc.) and high-speed currency trading. Even a miniscule financial transaction tax would not only reduce the volatility of the financial sector but raise billions for improving and sustaining the commons. http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/david- ... le-economy
- Put Corporations in Their PlaceIdeas: There are two main ways to accomplish this:(a) give corporations the responsibilities and limitations of humans as well as the rights
B-corp
Total corp. responsibility.
(b) recognize that corporations are not human and do not deserve these rights.
Reinstate corporate charters
Remove free speech' of corporations (citizens united)
- Consider Life Cycle Cost
- Realize Every Purchase is A Vote
- Shop Less, Live More
- Invest Locally
- Steady-State Economy (Mar 2015 version of this title is "Create a Thriving No-Growth Economy")
- State and Community Banks
- Re-grow the Giving Economy (Mar 2015 called this "Restore the Giving Economy")
- Local Currency for Local Economies
- Microlending
- Mutual Credit Systems
- Practice Fair Trade
Cards Under Development:
- Shrink the Monetary Economy
- Forgive Unfair Debts
- Eliminate Profit from Ownership (Mar 2015 called this "No Profit From Ownership")
- Share the Pie
- Institute a Social Dividend
- Currency For Exchange, Not Hoarding (Mar 2015 called this "Currency for Trade, Not Hoarding")
- Invest in the Commons [TBD]
- Public Control of Natural Monopolies
- Community Development Banks [TBD]
- Reinvent Health Care [TBD]
Sample Card:
New Card (heading)
- Draft description: [to fit well on a card, text must be no more than 65 words. Please do not make any edits to existing cards that make this section longer than that.]
- Instead of: Whatever the design solution is not. [to fit well on a card, text must be no more than 30 words. Please do not make any edits to existing cards that make this section longer than that.]
- Synergies Edit
(cards that work well together)
[link to related card]
Idea Family Edit
(cards with shared core concept — such as specific application of general principles)
[link to related card]
Deeper Dive
- Detailed Description Edit
[placeholder for deeper text on the topic—since __ words isn't very many!]
- Data and Statistics Edit
[if there is data that backs up this card please list it here—with references!]
- Resources and References Edit
[who's working on this? What good information is out there?]
- Examples and Experiments Edit
[Are there real world examples of this in action? Are YOU or others testing this idea or working on implementing some aspect of this on the ground?]