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Sharing the source code is what our late founder did when he published his concept of people centered business which argued for an economy which could be "measured and calibrated in terms of human bei... More
6 months 3 weeks ago
Coops Europe and Fair Trade team up to promote people-centred businesses Both Cooperatives Europe and Fair Trade have been actively engaged in promoting enterprises that place people and not profit... More
2 years 8 months ago
Accoding to the charity Lumos, 367m Euros of EU funds have been re-directed from support for orphanages toward placing children in family homes: http://wearelumos.org/news/1459 In 2008, the argu... More
3 years 3 months ago
A few months after writing, Unilever's CEO, Paul Polman wrote of where the moral compass meets the bottom line saying: "When people talk about new forms of capitalism, this is what I have in mind: ... More
3 years 10 months ago
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Hi Rachel. Interestingly that's where we started, with the concept of business making the community its primary purpose. We called it people-centered economics. I came late into this discussion with m... More
4 years 3 weeks ago
Hi Eugene, We called out a couple of guys on this subject a few years ago, their names were Joe and Barack. The message about "people in silos, foxholes and trenches looking for better than ordnanc... More
4 years 3 weeks ago
The psychologist Carl R Rogers, in his person centered counselling, advocated that given access to resources, the individual might resolve their own problems, flourish and grow.  People-centered ... More
4 years 8 months ago
I wrote this blog, Changing Capitalism for People and Planet a year ago to describe the work of my deceased colleague Terry Hallman whose white paper in 1996, on an alternative to traditional capital... More
4 years 8 months ago
I wrote this blog, Changing Capitalism for People and Planet a year ago to describe the work of my deceased colleague Terry Hallman whose white paper in 1996, led to his end, in challenging organised... More
4 years 8 months ago
"Built on ideas derived from Maslow, Drucker, Tofler, Fromm, Rollo May, Fritjof Capra and Carl R Rogers who believed people could be empowered to achieve their full potential, it reasons the fundamen... More
4 years 8 months ago
Interestingly the question reflects how our own paper opened by asking: "At first glance, it might seem redundant to emphasize people as the central focus of economics. After all, isn't the purpose... More
4 years 8 months ago
The word Politburo is what drew me to this conversation. We'd encountered the real thing when making children in Ukraine's institutions the social focus of our business. We were up against a hangover... More
4 years 8 months ago
In 2004 I introduced a for benefit company to the UK and since 2008 the group Social Business and For Benefit Corporations on Linkedin has accumulated just over 1000 members. The model was conceived... More
4 years 9 months ago
This is an overview of People-Centered Economic Development , which started with a paper advocating an alternative to traditional capitalism, for the Committee to Re-Elect the President in 1996. More
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The psychologist Carl R Rogers, in his person centered counselling, advocated that given access to resources, the individual might resolve their own problems, flourish and grow.  People-centered economics suggests that the same approach can be applied to business and economics.

It was Rogers and other humanists who would influence...

By Jeff Mowatt on March 26, 2022