The Economy for the Common Good

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Aristotle considered it wrong to take profits beyond what you need to cover your costs and to live. In the economy for the common good, communities would get together and decide on a different set of incentives. The community's laws, tax codes and lending and investing institutions would reward enterprises with a positive common good balance sheet; penalize those that just extract maximum profits while paying unlivable wages or polluting land in the atmosphere.

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make — in the West, and the U.S. in particular — to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other? Episode 11 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency.

Researched and produced by John Biewen, with co-host Amy Westervelt. Script editor, Cheryl Devall. Interviews with Dirk Philipsen, Christian Felber, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, and Jessica Hernandez. Music by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, Cora Miron, Fabian Almazan, and Alex Weston. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.