From Living the New Story –  Series 3

Christian Felber is an internationally renowned speaker, university lecturer, IASS Affiliate Scholar, and a contemporary dancer. He is the initiator of the Economy for the Common Good and the project Bank for the Common Good. His bestselling books include: 50 Suggestions for a Fairer World, New Values for the Economy, Let’s Save the Euro!, Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good, Money – The New Rules of the Game, which was awarded the getAbstract International Book Award 2014, and most recently Trading for Good. The Economy for the Common Good received the Zeit-Wissen Award in 2017. Christian lives and works as an independent writer in Vienna.

Questions for ongoing reflection and dialogue

1. You are invited to research your own country’s constitution. What elements of the common good values are already enshrined within it? To what extent are these values being applied in society and to the economy?

2. What initiatives towards an economy for the common good are you aware of that are being experimented with in your own location?

3. What small steps might you take to further or begin to implement the common good values in your location?

4. What challenges might you see to implementing the common good model in your own location? How might these challenges be overcome?

5. How would you organise if you got together in your community, your neighbourhood, your village or city, a democratic assembly of the citizens in order to compose, in a participatory process, a Common Good product?