A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century (Open Media Series)

Long-term job security is being substituted with temporary and casual employment, the use of consultants, outsourcing, and a variety of other techniques which erode commitments to employees.

giving more latitude to teams and people farther down the hierarchy.

social accountability, such as environmental sustainability, community revitalization, or global equity.

The earth cannot support five billion people (or twice that, by the next century) who are driving cars, eating meat, turning on the air conditioning when it gets hot, and throwing away a can every time they drink a soda. But what else have development and rising incomes meant but emulating the American way of life?

which business is more tightly regulated and controlled.

They put peace, meaningful work, and basic values above affluence.

Looking back over the past fifty years, the U.S. experience raises troubling questions. We have more than doubled our productive potential, as a result of rising productivity. Had we channeled this “productivity dividend” into leisure time, Americans would have already reached the twenty hour week. But instead we used all of our economic progress t

Any form of economy should be subject to the requirement of providing a good quality of life for all Americans in an ecologically sustainable way.

A key environmental problem is that current systems of housing and transport are unsustainable. In American suburbia, houses are large and costly to build. They are energy inefficient and cannot be kept cool without air conditioning. They have large lawns, often with ecologically destructive landscaping. Because of the distances and the land-use pa