The Enlightened Capitalism Hour with guest Peter Brown - Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy Thursday, July 16, 2009

It is no secret that our current economic model, with its emphasis on unlimited growth and wealth accumulation, has been unkind to our natural environment and much of the humanity that populates it. Now that this model is beginning to even fail the few whom it enriched, we are in an unusual moment where there is an unprecedented opportunity to fix it. Yet we have little collective wisdom on what it means to have a healthy economy. How might such an economy look? And what types of questions should we be asking ourselves as we imagine it? In Right Relationship Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver use the core Quaker principle of “right relationship”—interacting in a way that is respectful to all life and that aids the common good—as the foundation for a new economic model. Right Relationship poses five basic questions: What is an economy for? How does it work? How big is too big? What’s fair? And how can it best be governed? www.moraleconomy.org