Voices of the New Economy

Every January, the world’s most powerful political and economic actors gather in Davos to talk about the future. Trillions of dollars. Global security. Artificial intelligence. Climate risk. It can all feel impossibly distant from everyday life — especially for people trying to make change at the community level. But as Eugene explains in this episode […]

When people talk about building a new economy, the conversation often starts with the visible structures: money, markets, jobs, housing, energy, and policy. These are important. They shape daily life in immediate ways. Yet beneath them sits something quieter and more foundational: how we learn what the world is, what we value, and what counts

When people talk about building a “new economy”, the conversation often moves quickly to things that feel concrete: different business models, new metrics beyond GDP, localised production, or rethinking work and consumption. All of that matters. Yet Peter Tait’s argument is more foundational, and in some ways more confronting. If the rules of public life

Few ideas provoke as much immediate discomfort as the suggestion that people in wealthy societies should become poorer. The discomfort is revealing. It exposes how deeply prosperity has been tied, culturally and politically, to paid work, consumption, and economic growth. In his conversation on Voices of the New Economy, Robert McLean challenges this assumption directly,

When most of us think about the future, our minds drift toward crisis. We picture rising temperatures, worsening floods and fires, unaffordable housing, empty supermarket shelves, or political turmoil. We’ve become good at imagining dystopias — and far less practiced at imagining futures that feel hopeful, safe and regenerative. But what if the problem isn’t

Across Australia, more and more people are questioning the promise that economic growth will solve our social and environmental crises. In fact, many are quietly sensing the opposite: that the push for continual expansion is driving resource depletion, social isolation, and the erosion of community life. Yet amid this uncertainty, new ideas and new visions

Most of us feel it: life is getting faster, more stressful, more expensive, and more disconnected. Our food travels absurd distances, our work lives feel stretched, and our communities feel thinner than they used to. In the middle of all of this, a growing movement is offering a surprisingly simple — and surprisingly hopeful —