The Video Series

Imagining a New Economy

Four live conversations between Ann Kramer and Lawrence Winnerman about what comes after an economy that measures only money—and how we start building it where we live. Watch in order; each session builds on the last.

Part 1 · 58 min

Beyond GDP: Why Our Economy’s Story Stopped Working

Why a counselor’s unhappy, successful clients led to a new economic framework—and the three expansions that build what comes next: measuring quality of life, adding a Local Community Capacity work sector, and expanding what counts as wealth.

Part 2 · 59 min

Why a Better Economy Starts With Whole People

The Life Puzzle Wheel and the Wholeness Continuum, and why a community’s capacity is the sum of the people in it. An economy that truly promotes human welfare has to care for every single one of us.

Part 3 · 66 min

How a Neighborhood Builds Its Own Economy

The nuts and bolts of Integrative Community Ventures: twenty neighbors within a one-mile radius, paid to care for children, people with disabilities, and seniors—supported by local universities, local businesses, and new forms of exchange like time dollars.

Part 4 · 63 min

Let It Be Us: Building the Next Economy Ourselves

Human capacity development as the foundation of the next economy, and how a real pilot gets funded—from community meetings and private donors to local currency and time banks. Ann’s full slide deck is on the Substack post.

Nobody Is Going to Hand Us a Better Economy. Let It Be Us.

Want the ideas in writing? Read the Key Concepts primer and the three Key Actions. And if you’d like to follow the conversation as it continues, join us below.