»The integral economics model has its starting point in its centre, in the moral core of a society. In our own research we uncovered how vital it is that the outer economic system of a society is in resonance with its inner moral core, or indeed moral cores. We argue that a society needs to begin its process of integral economic development by securing “southern” nature-based economic self-sufficiency, before it focuses on the other, “eastern”, “northern” and “western”, economic functions. Thereafter it needs to respectively include the building up of a culture-based developmental economy (ensuring that the economy is aligned with the cultural evolution the society), a knowledge-based social economy (aligning its socio-economic structures with technology-driven knowledge systems) and a finance- and enterprise-based living economy (reconnecting finance and economic performance measurement to natural and human well-being).«
(From P.3. Elaboration: Integral Economics by Lessem & Schieffer, in Prologue of the Piciga, D., Schieffer, A. & Lessem, R. (eds.), Integral Green Slovenia: Towards a Social, Knowledge- and Value-Based Economy and Society at the Heart of Europe (Oxon: Routledge, 2016).)
Integral Economics – Theory and Practice
Introduction to Ronnie Lessem's and Alexander Schieffer's (2010) Integral Economics: Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society.Farnham: Gower: LINK (Preview)
A Review Essay on Ronnie Lessem's and Alexander Schieffer's Integral Economics by Christian Arnsperger (Integral Leadership Review, MARCH 24, 2012): LINK
SELECTED SEMINAL PRACTICE CASES OF INTEGRAL ECONOMY
SOUTHERN APPROACH TO ECONOMY:
MUHAMMAD YUNUS - GRAMEEN BANK
Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank (7 min): LINK
Grameen Bank - Banking On The Poor – Bangladesh: LINK
Grameen Bank, in Wikipedia: LINK
SEKEM INITIATIVE
Introductory film to the SEKEM Initiative: LINK
(in various languages: LINK)
SEKEM, official website: LINK
SEKEM, Right Livelihood Award: LINK
SEKEM, in Wikipedia: LINK
EASTERN APPROACH TO ECONOMY:
SARVODAYA MOVEMENT
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement:
Sarvodaya, official website: LINK
NORTHERN APPROACH TO ECONOMY:
MONDRAGON COOPERATIVE
Mondragon – official website: LINK
Mondragon Corporation – Cooperative, video:
Mondragon Cooperative Part 1 and 2 (2008): LINK1 and LINK2
Mondragon Corporation, in Wikipedia: LINK
WESTERN APPROACH TO ECONOMY:
STEADY STATE ECONOMY
CASSE – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, official website: LINK
Forty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy challenged the basic way we measure progress and well-being in America: LINK
(written text in: GDP and Indicators of Economic Wellbeing, CASSE Brief: LINK)
What the impossible hamster has to teach us about economic growth: LINK
Dan O'Neill – What Is a Steady State Economy?: LINK
What Is a Steady State Economy? Brief: LINK
Banks in a Steady State Economy: LINK
SUSTAINABLE BANKING:
Triodos Bank, official website: LINK
Triodos Bank, video: LINK
Triodos Bank, in Wikipedia: LINK
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV): LINK
SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRISE:
Interface, official website: LINK
Ray Anderson - Interface Carpets: LINK
Interface Carpets: Mission Zero Milestones – Interactive: LINK