helping to pay for new employment, new
participate in and profit from the building in
construction, immediate palpable improvements to the aesthetics of the built environment, and for enhanced mobility and economic opportunity across at least two
their own communities; • Put at the center of this new human-scale construction initiative new schools and health clinics;
counties.
• Build into the new structural reinforcements 100% smart-grid-based clean energy technologies, which would generate jobs and new wealth in the communities
Build such a system into the wider fabric of New York City and the region, and the benefit to commuters, to commuter -dependent enterprises, to the housing market, and to the funding of schools, community recreational activities, public safety and health treatment options supported by the public or
These are examples, and enacting such policies will require significant changes in the way funds are disbursed. The World Bank
private sector, is still more noticeable. The same sort of organic optimization can generate new resources and better quality of life in non-urban settings as well, as small
and IMF could be what they are supposed to be—forces for good—by being forces for GOOD-based generative reinforcements of an economic sea change motivated by an
communities become 100% energy independent, and build in smart, innovative enterprises, better quality of life, more efficient transport and educational options,
awareness of the benefits of real mutual thriving. Without an aim to build GOODbased thinking into wider economic planning, we will not overcome the corrosive tendencies
each of these inducing new hiring and new investment, at the local level. In a city like Barcelona, Spain, refurbishing central markets in every barrio of the city,
of exploitative hyper-consumption, and so we will not do enough to eliminate poverty and build a permanent democratically empowered middle class.
and adding 100% clean-energy-based new construction and training programs, would vastly enhance the amount of GOOD-relative investment, cycling new wealth through the
GOOD-based economics is just a start, but it is integral to understanding how we, as a civilization, move forward in this increasingly connected, personality-driven 21st century
generalized economy of middle class and working families. It would also afford young people with new routes into the labor market, something Spain desperately needs.
where we hope that all people everywhere will be free to live, work, dream and achieve, with dignity, security and socio-political empowerment to back them up and to reinforce and
In cities like Jakarta, Indonesia, Maputo, Mozambique, or Mokha, Yemen, doing three things would vastly improve the GOODrelative standing of millions of people:
propagate the best outcomes of their best intentions, talents and relationships.
themselves...
• Incentivize investment by businesses and municipalities in more permanent structural reinforcements, allowing people to
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