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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