Defining a New Economy
There seems to be two kinds of reactions to the ongoing crisis. Those who are entangled in the current system can’t think of anything else but the usual recipies. They talk about growth, credit, consumption, employment. They want to reboost those in some ways, lowering VAT and interest rates, removing enterprise taxes. Nothing very revolutionary. And so far, the success of those measures is mitigated at the very least.
Others think (like we do) that the system is broken beyond repair and that it is time to rethink the way our economy works. In my humble opinion, we can’t rely on banks or even the government to initiate this movement. We have to innovate, stop undergoing the crisis and consider it as an amazing alternative to build something better, a new economy. And it’s not only an idealistic dream anymore: smart growth, social economy, more and more people are thinking about what values and principles could become the foundation of a fairer economy.
As you may know if you’ve read our objective, we would also like to create a new economy and we believe that progress and innovation should be at its heart because they have led us this far, have created enormous opportunity for employment, education, and they have the potential to buy us some time to focus on real-life concerns like hunger, diseases, environment and so on.
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