Positive Money.
Economics
London, , United Kingdom
2010
No matter who we are or where we come from, most of us want to live in a healthy and fair society. We value the things that really matter: that means housing we can afford, a doctors’ surgery we can get an appointment with, buses and trains that run on time, good jobs, clean air and green spaces.
But big corporations and banks have influenced some politicians to design our economic system so that money flows to a rich elite rather than to society as a whole. Instead of putting money into schools, hospitals and protecting our green spaces, they invest money in making homes unaffordable and in fossil fuels, and put us all at risk.
Positive Money believes that instead of allowing a rich elite to exploit people and nature to line their pockets, we should redesign our economic system for social justice and a liveable planet – so that we all have the things we need to live well, like clean air, good jobs and homes we can afford.
Vision for Economics
Positive Money approach combines an ‘insider’ strategy, influencing policy and building relationships with policy makers, and an “outsider” strategy, engaging with the media, as well as informing and mobilising the public, to apply pressure on policy makers.
Positive Money focuses on achieving two core missions. First, redesigning our economic system to tackle inequality and protect the planet. Give our central banks, governments and international finance institutions a mandate, and the tools, to lead the transition to a just and sustainable future. Second, shifting power from big corporations and banks to people. Create an economic system that redirects power and money away from rich elites and towards people and communities.
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