Beloved Economies is book of seven steps for for businesses, non-profits, farms and schools to build more purposeful economics that build trust and share power. ‘Work’ can work for us all, to build an economic future that is good for everyone.
Based on extensive research with organizations and companies that are boldly breaking out of business as usual, Beloved Economies offer readers an imagination-expanding vision of what work could be.
Looking at over 60 people from a wide range of professions, what these groups have in common is that they are generating forms of success that put well-being, meaning, connection and resilience at the hearts of their businesses, not just financial success and quality.
It’s not only what we do for a living, but how we do it – that moves us into economies that all of us can love.
The Seven Practices
- Share decision-making power
- Prioritise relationships
- Reckon with history
- Seek difference
- Source from multiple-knowing
- Trust there is time
- Share and test ideas
A compelling vision of a world in which the relationship between work, the environment and human flourishing, is one of harmony. All made vivid, through stories of people who are already changing the status quo. Eric Ries
About the Authors
Jess Riminton is an economy strategist who focuses on emerging post-capitalist ways of life. Focusing on the imagination of small business and organisation leaders, who are stepping out of current extractive systems.
Joanna Levitt Cea has worked in community efforts to stop destructive investments that threaten local livelihoods and ecosystems, and led the human rights organisation International Accountability Project, and was founding director of Buen Vivir Fund with Thousand Currents.
