Description:
Regenerative Economics is based on the deceptively simple idea that an economic system should emulate the process and patterns that define all life. This science-based next evolution of economics explains the root cause of the polycrisis and promises a hopeful pathway forward, rooted in unseen potential and abundance
Brief description:
John Fullerton is an unconventional economist, impact investor, author, and some say philosopher. Following a two-decade successful career at JPMorgan, he walked away in 2001 with no plan but many questions. Now considered the architect of Regenerative Economics, he founded The Capital Institute in 2010 to explore the urgent need for economics and finance in service to life. John lives in Stonington, CT.
Review Quotes:
Please read this important book; it will change your life and by extension change our system for the benefit of all Life that will come after us.
-Colin le Duc, founding partner of Generation Investment Management
In a profound breakthrough, Regenerative Economics is the way-shower we need to urge our collective agency from separation to wholeness, domination to partnership, and conflict toward our evolutionary potential for planetary peace.
-Dr. Jude Currivan, cosmologist, author, and co-founder of WholeWorld-View
This book should be on the desk of every politician, CEO, CFO, and investor, worldwide.
-John Elkington, sustainability pioneer and author of 21 books, including Tickling Sharks
These are crucial reflections for an overheating and chaotic world.
-Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
Exactly as predicted by Donella Meadows and colleagues a half century ago in the Club of Rome's seminal report, Limits to Growth, humanity has not only hit planetary limits, but human progress is moving backwards. The good news is that there are no limits to learning. With Regenerative Economics, Fullerton shows us a fresh pathway forward. The time has come to honor the wisdom of Limits to Growth by applying what we know and building an alternative future that makes us proud! This book and its thinking contributes to that edifice.
-Sandrine Dixson-Declève, global ambassador for the Club of Rome and co-author of Earth for All
Regenerative: everyone's using the word these days. You owe it to yourself to enjoy this deep dive from the man who made the term popular.
-Hunter Lovins, president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, author of 17 books including Natural Capitalism, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award
This thought-provoking book, he urges us to take a more holistic approach to understanding the economy, ourselves, and the environment, and to base that understanding on the regenerative process common to all life. More than that, he points the way.
-Peter A. Victor, professor emeritus at York University and author of Escape from Overshoot and Herman Daly's Economics for a Full World
This is one of the most important books on economics in our times. Fullerton understands clearly that our human economy is a subset of nature's economy. But he goes further. In aligning our economic systems with nature's generative processes, he points us toward creating a flourishing Earth community. This perspective echoes the wisdom found in many ancient teachings, offering a pathway to transcend our separation and join together as an interdependent planetary species. Regenerative Economics is an indispensable beacon shining the way to our shared planetary future.
-Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-founder and co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and co-author of Journey of the Universe
John Fullerton's new book, Regenerative Economics, is a light for dark times, offering a new lens for us to reconsider livelihood and how we live in community with ourselves and the natural world. Those who have been waiting for a rigorous yet soulful definition of regeneration and regenerative principles will find Fullerton's approach refreshing, coherent, and comprehensive.
-Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy, Patagonia
We need to rethink everything-our economics, finance, culture, politics- if we are to meet the great challenges of our times. Let's begin with this powerful and timely book.
-Rebecca Henderson, John & Natty University Professor, Harvard University
The beacon of John Fullerton and his book Regenerative Econ