On February 19, Harvard Law hosted “Beyond Sanders and Clinton: Visionary Futures for Democratic Economics,” an event that brought three economic visionaries to challenge Harvard students to imagine beyond today’s policy fights and envision how an inclusive economy could function 50 years from now. Their three speeches are below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A61MWxFjtpQ
Gar Alperovitz was legislative director for Rep. Gaylord Nelson and is now a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. He is the co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, which aims to develop practical, policy-focused and systematic paths towards ecologically sustainable, community-oriented change and the democratization of wealth. He has spent recent decades aiming to answer the question: “If you don’t like corporate capitalism and you don’t like state socialism, what do you like?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjz-8CpQ6Xk
Greg Watson is the former Commissioner of Agriculture of Massachusetts and now the Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for New Economics. He has been a public voice for sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, new monetary systems, equitable land tenure arrangements, neighborhood planning through democratic processes, government policies that support human-scale development, cooperative structure, and import replacement through citizen financing of new enterprises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWPIvKNC0k
Juliet Schor is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is the co-founder of the Board of the Center for a New American Dream and the author of many influential books, including: The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure; The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need; and Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth.