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New economic models

  • Emmet, a character from the Lego Movie

    Automation will mark the end of our work-obsessed society

    David Frayne
    We live in a profoundly work-centred world; if automation is to benefit us we need to ask big critical questions about the purpose and value of our jobs
  • Paul Mason

    Automation may mean a post-work society but we shouldn't be afraid

    Paul Mason
  • DOEN holding image

    The last job on Earth: imagining a fully automated world – video

  • Community graphic of people in houses reaching out hands

    Pay it forward: the New Zealand town where your time is a currency

    When the port town of Lyttleton was devastated by a series of earthquakes, time banking helped the community harness the resources to rebuild
  • A shareholder protest

    Outraged by CEO salaries? It was your shares that approved them

    David Pitt-Watson
    There is little recognition of the pressure that we, the citizen investors, can put on companies to act more socially responsibly
  • Stock exchange screen

    Capitalism isn’t dead; it can become a force for good in society

    Barbara Stocking
    There may be appetite for change but without a coherent alternative we must work out how to make capitalism work for us
  • Demonstrators protest in Frankfurt, Germany against government austerity and capitalism earlier this year

    Mainstreaming new economic models - New York event

    Exploring the successes and failures of neoliberal capitalism, the emergence of alternative economic models and the potential for grassroots activity to create meaningful change
  • Support for fossil fuel divestment

    We can't divest from fossil fuels unless you tell us, says UK's largest pension assets manager

    Watch highlights from the Guardian Live debate on fossil fuel divestment, with panel guests including Legal and General’s Meryam Omi
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