How can we create an economy based on people, to achieve financial profit, social benefit, and a safer, cleaner environment?

This question was raised in our presentation to the opening plenary of the 2009 Economics for Ecology conference in Sumy, drawing attention to the impact of our economic system. Our founder concluded — “We all get to invent whatever new economic system that comes next, because we must”

He was the man who proposed the concept of a for-benefit enterprise to Bill Clinton 20 years ago and we were putting it into practice in Ukraine. His subsequent presentation was the core argument from his 1996 paper which concluded:

“Economics, and indeed human civilization, can only be measured and calibrated in terms of human beings. Everything in economics has to be adjusted for people, first, and abandoning the illusory numerical analyses that inevitably put numbers ahead of people, capitalism ahead of democracy, and degradation ahead of compassion.

“Each of us who have a choice can choose what we want to do to help or not. It is free-will, our choice, as human beings.”

https://medium.com/@peoplecentred/capitalism-climate-and-cold-war-196936321784