{"id":1520,"date":"2018-01-28T22:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2018-01-28T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T22:46:48","slug":"looking-back-on-2017-a-peace-economics-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on 2017 – A Peace Economics perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

2017 saw the publication of Doughnut Economics- a model for keeping within planetary\u00a0boundaries\u00a0AND meeting social needs. Keeping within boundaries requires practices to go from extractive to regenerative. We share links on doughnut economics, reflect that it is\u00a0\u00a0150 years since the publication of Capital volume 1 by Karl Marx, and offer our observation that\u00a0signals we are detecting show\u00a0that peace wanted to make a come-back, going hand in hand with regenerative economic approaches.\u00a0Popping up in different places, the awareness seemed to be growing of the good sense in designing economic policies that incentivize taking care of Earth and putting peace first. Indeed, Doughnut economics, by insisting economics must remove suffering, and other signals on the importance of restoring land to support livelihoods not industrial practices all point towards peace economics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Peace Significance of the Doughnut<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warning that business as usual will result in starvation.<\/a><\/p>\n

Understanding how present political economy\u00a0is actually designed to create poverty and inequality<\/a><\/p>\n

An earlier signal came from the IMF who have entertained the notion that neoliberal policies have increased inequality and stunted economic growth. Read the\u00a0FORTUNE Article here<\/a>\u00a0or go\u00a0straight to the report.<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the book<\/a>\u00a0on Doughnut Economics<\/p>\n

Doughnut economics gets support from George Monbiot:\u00a0Finally a breakthrough.<\/a><\/p>\n

From Extractive to Regenerative<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article highlights\u00a0a regenerative approach to economics<\/a><\/p>\n

Calling for a new economic system\u00a0to stop climate change<\/a><\/p>\n

Peace is a very old idea that hasn’t gone away…. yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indeed, many examples are coming to the fore of how regenerating land underpins peace in the area.\u00a0This example from Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>\n

We held the\u00a0Invest in Peace Conference\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>in the very same center where the Germans and French met for reconciliation after WW2.<\/p>\n

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Learning more about\u00a0Invest in Peace -Webinar<\/a><\/p>\n

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Capitalism’s famous detractor\u00a0150 years on<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marx warned that capitalism’s internal contradictions would cause it to fail. The message has not been forgotten.<\/p>\n

UK Shadow chancellor points back to Marx and calls himself a socialist.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reading Marx Today – a view from a Marxist Economist<\/a><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/visionofhumanity.org\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GPI17-Report.pdf<\/p>\n

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Maybe 2017 was the year that more and more understood that there are structures underlying the state of global inequality and that wealth redistribution is not something that should happen in 2018 . It is already happening in that wealth is going from poor to the rich. To ensure people have the money to buy essentials – a foundation cornerstone of peace in the world -the redistribution needs to be reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2017 saw the publication of Doughnut Economics- a model for keeping within planetary\u00a0boundaries\u00a0AND meeting social needs. Keeping within boundaries requires practices to go from extractive to regenerative. We share links on doughnut economics, reflect that it is\u00a0\u00a0150 years since the publication of Capital volume 1 by Karl Marx, and offer our observation that\u00a0signals we are … Continue reading Looking back on 2017 – A Peace Economics perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiscal-reform","category-news","category-peace-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}