For decades, democracy has been under attack by big banks and corporations, which have used their clout to subvert the democratic process at every level – from campaign finance to lobbying, from 'free trade' to the revolving door between government and big business. So how can we move towards genuine participatory democracy and bring 'people power' back into the world's economies?
Presenters:
Christian Felber, author of 'Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good' and founder of the Economy for the Common Good project, and Helena Norberg-Hodge, director of Local Futures and co-director of the film 'The Economics of Happiness'.
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Presenters:
Christian Felber (Austria) is an internationally renowned speaker, a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and a contemporary dancer. He has authored several bestsellers: 50 Suggestions for a Fairer World; New Values for the Economy; Let’s Save the Euro!; Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good; and Money: The New Rules of the Game, which was awarded the getAbstract International Book Award 2014.
Helena Norberg-Hodge (Australia) is the founder and director of Local Futures/ISEC. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, and the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh and Local is Our Future.
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