The New Systems Reader

by James Gustave Speth (Editor), Kathleen Courrier (Editor)

The recognition is truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual―it requires "changing the system." But what does this mean? And what would it entail? The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions, drawing on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. Amid the failure of traditional politics and policies to address our fundamental challenges, an increasing number of thoughtful proposals and real-world models suggest new possibilities, this book convenes an essential conversation about the future we want.

Genres: Economics, Climate Change

510 pages, Hardcover

Published October 20, 2020

Reviews

[Jeffrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic collection of a diverse set of essays reimagining and laying out how to transform our current extractive, ecologically indifferent, and community destroying market economy into one that embraces at its heart community. Within this new economy where we place value will emphasize local wealth generation, elevate the caring economy to its proper importance in society, and appropriately account for negative externalities that are currently ignored in our current economic paradigm.

This is an important contribution to the new economy movement and systems designs thinking. As we make important institutional design decisions for the world we are building this book provides several options to work with and build upon.