Peer2Politics

This past weekend was the 103rd birthday of the late Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher. An economist and scientist, Schumacher has picked up an eclectic coterie of fans and admirers over the years, as evinced bythe list of “new economy” speakers recommended by the Schumacher Center for a New Economic, including Hazel Henderson, Jeremy Rifkin, Frances Moore Lappé, Peter Barnes, and NPQ friend Gar Alperovitz. Among the luminaries who have delivered the annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures have been Benjamin Barber, Ivan Illich, John McClaughry, John McKnight, Van Jones, Bill McKibben, Kirkpatrick Sale, Winona LaDuke, and frequent NPQ contributing author Bill Schambra.

Professor Jan Jonker, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands will publish a new book in the series: New Business Models. This book: Samen werken aan waardecreatie  or – translated in my own words: Collaboration for value creation – will be presented and discussed during the Symposium New Business Models, November 13, 2014. It is an inspirational book which will hopefully activate more people to implement WEconomy. This blog post tells about the co-writing process and zooms in on Guiding principles for WEconomy, the chapter of the book my group has been working on.