Big Picture Ideas to Save the Economy

Fall 2017

Designing a Sustainable Future: A New Economy as if People Mattered

Session Three: Big Picture Ideas to Save the Economy
Music: Billy Joel, "Allentown"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3bcBBA9_68
Essential questions:
• What are some challenges facing the US economy?
• What are some prescriptive ideas to address these challenges?
• What are the pros and cons of each prescriptive idea?

Gathering: After looking at the Preferred State, Present State or Incubator ideas that we have created, I would like to add the following idea…”

Video:  Robert Reich, The Big Picture, moveon.org (You Tube)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXKLa2zfoTk&list=PLM_d2vWvHtwDtdv7G6OeEykgWfy7a4xeY&index=1
            • select four of the case studies for review and discussion
           
Debrief:
            • MoveOn debrief sheet
            • What are the pros and cons of these alternative structures?

Closing: Something that I learned in this session was…..

 Readings:
  Steven Rosenfeld, “ 37 Ways to Reform the Economy So It’s Not Rigged for the Rich, According to Progressive Economists, “ Alternet, May 13,2015

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
            Buckminster Fuller


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