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S: Systems thinking and models
S.1 What are systems?
S.2 Systems thinking patterns
S.3 Systems diagrams and models
S.4 Stocks and flows
S.5 Causal loops, feedback and tipping points
S.6 Agent-based models
S.7 Network models
S.8 Leverage points for system change
S.9 Systems traps and opportunities
1: Introduction to the economy
1.1 What is the economy?
1.1.1 The economy and you
1.1.2 The embedded economy
1.1.3 Degenerative economies
1.1.4 Regenerative economies
1.1.5 Summary
1.1.6 Reflection
1.2 Ecology and the economy
1.2.1 Human-nature relationship
1.2.2 Energy basics
1.2.3 Impact of the fossil fuel energy pulse
1.2.4 Matter in the economy
1.2.5 Ecosystems: interactions, energy and stability
1.2.6 Biogeochemical cycles
1.2.7 Planetary boundaries
1.2.8 Summary
1.2.9 Reflection
1.3 Society and the economy
1.3.1 Human nature
1.3.2 Values in the economy
1.3.3 Human needs
1.3.4 Doughnut Economics Model
1.3.5 Provisioning systems
1.3.6 Households, markets, state and commons
1.3.7 Care in the economy
1.3.8 Reciprocity in the economy
1.3.9 Power in the economy
1.3.10 Technology in the economy
1.3.11 Freedom in the economy
1.3.12 Narratives in the economy
1.3.13 Summary
1.3.14 Reflection
1.4 Regenerative economies
1.4.1 Biomimicry for economic design
1.4.2 Circular economies
1.4.3 Distributive economies
1.4.4 Caring economies
1.4.5 Summary
1.4.6 Reflection
1.5 Taking action
2: Households
2.1 What is the household?
2.1.1 The household as a system
2.1.2 Household size and composition
2.1.3 Household functions
2.1.4 Householding skills
2.1.5 Summary
2.1.6 Reflection
2.2 Household relationships with other provisioning institutions
2.2.1 Households and markets
2.2.2 Household ands the commons
2.2.3 Households and the state
2.2.4. Care diamond
2.2.5 Summary
2.2.6 Reflection
2.3 Households: power and inequality
2.3.1 Intrahousehold bargaining power
2.3.2 Households and gender inequalities
2.3.3 Households and global care chains
2.3.4 Researching households
2.3.5 Summary
2.3.6 Reflection
2.4 Strategies to strengthen households
2.4.1 Strengthening households: a systems view
2.4.2 The role of commoning
2.4.3 The role of businesses in markets
2.4.4 The role of the state
2.4.5 Summary
2.4.6 Reflection
2.5 Taking action
3: Markets
3.1 What are markets?
3.1.1 The market as a system
3.1.2 Demand and supply
3.1.3 Elasticity
3.1.4 Uses and limitations of markets
3.1.5 Ecologically embedded markets
3.1.6 Socially embedded markets
3.1.7 Profits
3.1.8 Summary
3.1.9 Reflection
3.2 Markets: capitalism, power and inequalities
3.2.1 Capitalism: definition and development
3.2.2 Capitalism: an evaluation
3.2.3 Law and markets
3.2.4 Market power
3.2.5 Moral limits of markets
3.2.6 Summary
3.2.7 Reflection
3.3 Regenerative business I: Doughnut design for business
3.3.1 The deep design of firms
3.3.2 The purpose of firms
3.3.3 The networks and governance of firms
3.3.4 The ownership of firms
3.3.5 The financing of firms
3.3.6 Summary
3.3.7 Reflection
3.4 Regenerative businesses II
3.4.1 Regenerative entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
3.4.2 Circular business models
3.4.3 Relocalisation, bioregionalism and business
3.4.4 The role of external certification and support organisations
3.4.5 The role of the state
3.4.6 Markets for nature?
3.4.7 Summary
3.4.8 Reflection
3.5 Taking action
4: The commons
4.1 What are the commons?
4.1.1 The commons as a system
4.1.2 Commons' relationships with other provisioning institutions
4.1.3 Perspectives on the commons
4.1.4 Designing commons
4.1.5 The role of care in commoning
4.1.6 Summary
4.1.7 Reflection
4.2 Spheres of commoning
4.2.1 Eco-stewardship of nature
4.2.2 Modern land commons
4.2.3 Urban commons and relocalisation
4.2.4 Social commitment pooling
4.2.5 Digital commons
4.2.6 Summary
4.2.7 Reflection
4.3 Threats to the commons
4.3.1 Human-nature dualism
4.3.2 Enclosure
4.3.3 Economic narratives
4.3.4 Geopolitics
4.3.5 Summary
4.3.6 Reflection
4.4 Strategies to support commoning
4.4.1 Preventing enclosure
4.4.2 Providing physical infrastructure
4.4.3 The role of state power and policy
4.4.4 Financing the commons
4.4.5 Educating for commoning
4.4.6 Summary
4.4.7 Reflection
4.5 Taking action
5: The state
5.1 What is the state?
5.1.1 The state as a system
5.1.2 Origins, legitimacy and power of states
5.1.3 State functions
5.1.4 Balancing state and non-state power
5.1.5 State narratives: Neoliberalism
5.1.6 State narratives: Entrepreneurial state
5.1.7 Summary
5.1.8 Reflection
5.2 Threats to state functions
5.2.1 Budget limits and austerity policies
5.2.2 Privatisation and decline of public services
5.2.3 State capture and corruption
5.2.4 Globalisation and loss of state sovereignty
5.2.5 Planetary boundary overshoot
5.2.6 Summary
5.2.7 Reflection
5.3 Rethinking economic goals of the state
5.3.1 Economic growth: Measurement and impacts
5.3.2 Economic growth: System traps
5.3.3 Green Growth
5.3.4 Degrowth
5.3.5 Employment
5.3.6 Price stability
5.3.7 Wellbeing indicators
5.3.8 Living in the Doughnut
5.3.9 Summary
5.3.10 Reflection
5.4 Earth for All: System dynamics and the state
5.4.1 Two scenarios: ‘Too little, too late’ and ‘Giant leap’
5.4.2 Poverty
5.4.3 Economic inequality
5.4.4 Gender inequality
5.4.5 Food system transformation
5.4.6 Energy system transformation
5.4.7 Summary
5.4.8 Reflection
5.5 Taking action
6: Money and finance
6.1 What is money?
6.1.1 Money systems
6.1.2 History of money systems
6.1.3 Modern money creation
6.1.4 Social relationships and money
6.1.5 Ecological relationships and money
6.1.6 Political money narratives: Scarcity, neutrality, and powerlessness
6.1.7 Summary
6.1.8 Reflection
6.2 Finance: power, inequalities and risk
6.2.1 What is finance?
6.2.2 Purpose of finance
6.2.3 Financial power and inequality
6.2.4 Debt and inequality
6.2.5 Financialisation
6.2.6 Finance and planetary boundaries
6.2.7 Summary
6.2.8 Reflection
6.3 Regenerative money and finance
6.3.1 Why redesign money and finance?
6.3.2 Institutional investors: High leverage point for change
6.3.3 Local strategies: Community regenerative finance
6.3.4 Local strategies: Designing complementary currencies
6.3.5 National strategies: State direction for regenerative finance
6.3.6 National strategies: Financing state action
6.3.7 National strategies: Central bank digital currencies
6.3.8 Global strategies: Redesigning global tools
6.3.9 Global strategies: Redesigning global rules
6.3.10 Summary
6.3.11 Reflection
6.4 Financial literacy as resilience
7: Global exchanges
7.1 What is global exchange? Part I
7.1.1 Global exchange as a system
7.1.2 History of global exchanges
7.1.3 What moves across borders?
7.1.4 Multinational corporations and global supply chains
7.1.5 How do our actions here affect people elsewhere and the planet?
7.1.6 Summary
7.1.7 Reflection
7.2 What is global exchange? Part II
7.3 Global exchange: power, inequalities, and risk
7.4 Regenerative global exchanges
7.5 Taking action
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