New Economics Foundation

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The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is an independent British think-tank.

NEF was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) with the aim of working for a "new model of wealth creation, based on equality, diversity and economic stability". NEF uses the slogan "economics as if people and the planet mattered".^[1]

Contents 1 Work 1.1 Jubilee 2000 campaign 1.2 Local Money Flows 1.3 Happy Planet Index 1.4 IC100 2 Founding 3 Funding 4 Leadership 5 See also 6 References 7 External links 7.1 Reports

[edit] Work

NEF's works in the areas of community, democracy and global economy. A number of the ideas advanced by NEF have become public policy. NEF has for example promoted the spread of time banks and NEF's work on sustainability indicators, which measures aspects of life and environment, has fuelled a trend attempts to map how economic growth and sustainability are connected.^[2]

From 1995 to 2000 NEF made social audits of companies to measure and evaluate a company's social and ethical performance according to their standards. This work was instrumental in the formation of the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability to promote professional standards around social accounting and auditing.^[3]

[edit] Jubilee 2000 campaign

The Jubilee 2000 campaign, strategized for and run by NEF,^[4] collected 24 million signatures for its worldwide petition on development and poverty.^[5]

[edit] Local Money Flows

The Local Multiplier 3 tool was developed by NEF's Local money Flows measurement program and enables the mapping of money flows through the local economy.^[6]

[edit] Happy Planet Index

In July 2006, NEF launched the Happy Planet Index, intended to challenge existing indices of a state's success, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Human Development Index (HDI).

[edit] IC100

"IC100 will show that even the more disadvantaged inner cities are not the enterprise 'no-go' areas of the past, but the investment opportunities of the future."

Gordon Brown MP (Labour), speaking of their index of firms promoting inner city development.

[edit] Founding

James Robertson, a British economist, and Alison Pritchard, a Schumacher Society Council member, helped to set up The Other Economic Summit (TOES) and the new economics foundation.^[7]

[edit] Funding

NEF is a registered charity and is funded by individual supporters, public finance businesses and international grant-giving bodies.^[8]

[edit] Leadership

Ed Mayo was Chief Executive from 1992 until 2003.^[9]

• Director: Stewart Wallis
• Director of operations: Elna Kotze
• Director of Policy: Andrew Simms
• Senior associates: David Boyle, Pat Conaty, Ann Pettifor

[edit] See also

• List of UK think tanks
• E. F. Schumacher
• Schumacher Circle organisations

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• "New Economics Foundation at The Philanthropy Atlas by The Institute for Philanthropy
• "New Index (Inner City 100) will Reward Inner City Innovations", University of Sheffield
• "Client Study: New Economics Foundation", Total Coverage, the cooperative design consultancy
• The Happy Planet Index

[edit] Reports

• Are you happy? new economics past, present and future
• Nic Marks, Saamah Abdallah, Andrew Simms and Sam Thompson, "The Happy Planet Index: An index of human well-being and environmental impact", July 12, 2006.
• Andrew Simms, Petra Kjell and Ruth Potts, "Clone Town Britain: The survey results on the bland state of the nation" - (PDF download), June 6, 2005
• Molly Conisbee, Petra Kjell, Julian Oram, Jessica Bridges Palmer, Andrew Simms and John Taylor, "Clone Town Britain: The loss of local identity on the nation's high streets" - (PDF Download), August 28, 2004
  • Related Press Release
  • The survey the report was based upon
• Hetan Shah and Nic Marks, "A Well Being Manifesto for a Flourishing Society" - (PDF download), September 28, 2004
• Andrew Simms, John Magrath and Hannah Reid, "Up In Smoke: Threats from and responses to, the impact of global warming on human development" - (PDF download), October 20, 2004l; (PDF download), January 3, 2005

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