This German book tells the stories of 24 companies and organisations that have started on the path to implementing the Economy for the Common Good. Using practical examples, the portraits show what is possible when relationships with suppliers, employees and customers are based on trust and solidarity and the effects on the environment and [...]
Publication: Economy for the Common Good: A Common Standard for a Pluralist World? This books brings together scholarly works on the ECG, both from conceptual and empirical perspectives. The contributions were presented at the first-ever international scientific conference on ECG in Bremen, Germany. It was organised by the School of Graduate and Professional Studies [...]
ECG has been invited by the regional parliament of Gelderland, Netherlands to talk about Common Good Regions. The event on February 3rd at 1:30pm can be view via livestream.
Christian Felber, Initiator of the Economy for the Common Good, is one of the plenary speakers at the OnSustainability 2021 Conference on February 24th at 5:30pm CET | 10:30am EST. This is the international conference on environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability. The plenary sessions will be delivered as a combination of pre-recorded and [...]
700,000 euros of aid will be granted to sustainable companies in 2021. The Minister of the Valencian Community of Sustainable Economy, Industry, Commerce and Labor, Rafael Climent, in a resolution issued on December 4, has approved the continuation of aid to non-profit organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and university research institutions in the [...]
From April 20 to 22, 2021, the second BEST ECONOMY forum will take place at Kloster Andechs, near Munich, Germany. In 2019, the symposium was launched as a collaboration of the three associations Bioland, BIO HOTELS and Economy for the Common Good.The BEST ECONOMY forum aims to inspire companies to position themselves sustainably. The basic [...]
Economy for the Common Good (ECG) accepted the invitation of the German government and issued a joint statement on the German Sustainability Strategy. With the support of various politicians, scientists and entrepreneurs, ECG offered suggestions for additions to the sustainability strategy and illustrated the reasoning for these. The proposals aim to increase the binding [...]
The Future Markets Consultation, an initiative of an interdisciplinary group of researchers from four Dutch universities, has invited Luigi Zingales, co-developer of the Financial Trust Index and Christian Felber, initiator of the Economy for the Common Good, for an online discussion. The focus will be on the practical side of a new, different type [...]
The organization Escodi is organizing the conference "Retail with the Economy of the Common Good" to present successful experiences of retail companies that have begun to apply the economic model of the Economy for the Common Good (ECG). The Austrian author Christian Felber and an a global citizen’s movement are working to implement a [...]
During the ECG's campaign around the 10-year anniversary of the movement, more than 300 social media profile pictures were placed upside-down to symbolize how our economy is upside-down. Since October 5th, we have been posting a daily message about how our economy follows false goals.
