Uploaded February 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We’re interviewing key players in the new economy, to:
a) bring their work to a wider audience
b) try to find ways to co-ordinate their efforts
c) stimulate debate d) help to grow the new economy.
By new economy, we mean an economy whose component parts are democratic and non-extractive, rather than undemocratic and extractive.
Here, Dave Darby of Lowimpact.org chats with Dil Green about building a new economy with mutual credit and the viable system model.
Here's a transcript of the interview: lowimpact.org/non-extractive-economy-dil-green
Highlights
1. The sort of economies we want to become the norm are ones that are sustainable, and that means living within our means, not continually growing for the sake of growth.
2. For me, the VSM model and mutual credit need to also be almost fused together, through the multi-stakeholder co-operative approach.
3. We have to look to things that are not purely economic, and those are: trust, community, solidarity – and it turns out those things are economically useful as well.
NB: Dil would like to encourage readers interested in more detail as to how a federation of mutual credit networks might build a wide and deep economy to read Matthew Slater and Tim Jenkin's 2016 whitepaper, "The Credit Commons - A Money for the Solidarity Economy”.
Dave Darby & Dil Green
lowimpact.org
noncorporate.org
Other sites mentioned:
Mutual credit - lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/mutual-credit
VSM - lowimpact.org/viable-system-model-trevor-hilder
Money & Society MOOC - lowimpact.org/onlinecourse/money-society
Donella Meadow’s paper on the twelve leverage points to change a system - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points
We’re interviewing key players in the new economy, to:
a) bring their work to a wider audience
b) try to find ways to co-ordinate their efforts
c) stimulate debate d) help to grow the new economy.
By new economy, we mean an economy whose component parts are democratic and non-extractive, rather than undemocratic and extractive.
Here, Dave Darby of Lowimpact.org chats with Dil Green about building a new economy with mutual credit and the viable system model.
Here's a transcript of the interview: lowimpact.org/non-extractive-economy-dil-green
Highlights
1. The sort of economies we want to become the norm are ones that are sustainable, and that means living within our means, not continually growing for the sake of growth.
2. For me, the VSM model and mutual credit need to also be almost fused together, through the multi-stakeholder co-operative approach.
3. We have to look to things that are not purely economic, and those are: trust, community, solidarity – and it turns out those things are economically useful as well.
NB: Dil would like to encourage readers interested in more detail as to how a federation of mutual credit networks might build a wide and deep economy to read Matthew Slater and Tim Jenkin's 2016 whitepaper, "The Credit Commons - A Money for the Solidarity Economy”.
Dave Darby & Dil Green
lowimpact.org
noncorporate.org
Other sites mentioned:
Mutual credit - lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/mutual-credit
VSM - lowimpact.org/viable-system-model-trevor-hilder
Money & Society MOOC - lowimpact.org/onlinecourse/money-society
Donella Meadow’s paper on the twelve leverage points to change a system - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points
