Resources

Here you’ll find more materials and links to other initiatives.

Books:

The New Capitalist ManifestoThe New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
by Umair Haque

together_jacketTogether: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation

by Richard Sennett

Links:

The Human Age – How to fix the world  Umair Haque and Jimmy Greer map out ideas to fix the world.

Doughnut Economics – Findings a safe and space for humanity

i-see-global is a research practice run by Jimmy Greer. Jimmy works with companies and organisations to help them get to grips with their social, economic and environmental footprints.

The Great Divide – Global income inequality and its cost

The Power of Half – one family’s decision to stop taking and start giving

VeryNice – Matthew Manos of design consultancy VeryNice believes that he can give away half of his and his employees time to good causes and still be a very successful firm.

Example organisations:

Fairnopoly is a German online market place for sellers and buyers (compare to ebay) – it is organised as a cooperative.

The Apache Software Foundation – is a membership-based not-for-profit corporation. Members have voting rights. The board is elected. Projects are autonomous. The license structure for software is commercial friendly but the approach adheres to the principles of open source software development.

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