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Political-economist eyes on more humane economies & how they might just be built. Writer-at-large @UoE_EFI #WellbeingEconomy Allegedly dubious music taste katherinetrebeck.com linkedin.com/in/ktrebeck123

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Can we have infinite economic growth on a planet with finite resources?

Join podcast host David Miller for episode 1 of our Cities 1.5 mini series about the life and legacy of economist Herman Daly - the father of ecological economics.

๐ŸŽง lnk.to/HDE1

@gayaherrington.bsky.social

20.08.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Economic round table recycles broken ideas ANALYSIS: To boost Australian productivity, the government must look beyond the lower-tax and free-market solutions that have long reinforced its downward trend.

This, from @richarddenniss.bsky.social, is one of the best reviews of the #EconomicReformRoundtable. A breath of fresh critical air amidst the group think.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

25.08.2025 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Katherine Trebeck at Next Economies Summit! ๐ŸŒ

Next Economies Summit 2025 | September 12โ€“14 | Istanbul ๐ŸŒƒ

The Next Economies Summit 2025 will take place in Istanbul from September 12 to 14, organized in partnership with the Prosumer Economy Society and Kadir Has Universityโ€™s CESD. ๐ŸŒณ

23.06.2025 10:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
New episode -  Building a wellbeing economy in turbulent times. The Club of Rome Podcast: Till Kellerhoff, programme director at The Club of Rome, speaks with Katherine Trebeck, political economist and co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll. Black and white portraits of both are set against a yellow and white background with logos of Apple and Spotify in the top right corner.

New episode - Building a wellbeing economy in turbulent times. The Club of Rome Podcast: Till Kellerhoff, programme director at The Club of Rome, speaks with Katherine Trebeck, political economist and co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll. Black and white portraits of both are set against a yellow and white background with logos of Apple and Spotify in the top right corner.

๐ŸŒ How do we build real belief in wellbeing economicsโ€”especially in communities hit hardest by todayโ€™s system?

In The Club of Romeโ€™s latest podcast, @tillk.bsky.social talks with @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social on turning hope into action.

๐ŸŽง Listen: clubofrome.podbean.com/e/building-a...

08.08.2025 10:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Joining us on Day 1 of the our 2025 Conference is Katherine Trebeck!

Info +Tickets are available via the link in our bio or from seda.scot/events

20.07.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave After an unusually cold early summer, Finland has seen two weeks of temperatures topping 30C.

Can we please take climate breakdown seriously now....?
"Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave"- BBC

"for the 14th day in a row a temp of 30C was measured somewhere in Finland - 1st time since records began"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.07.2025 11:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trebeck, Katherine - Club of Rome 31 July 2023 -

They dive into:
๐ŸŒ Whatโ€™s blocking real systemic change
โš–๏ธ How hopeful visions struggle against rising authoritarianism & pessimism
๐Ÿงฑ Why โ€œLego winsโ€ arenโ€™t enough
Katherine is a member of The Club of Rome & a leading voice for economic system change, learn more: www.clubofrome.org/member/trebe...

27.06.2025 08:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#PODCAST | NEW EPISODE - Why does the vision of a wellbeing economy that serves people & planet remain both urgent and out of reach? ๐ŸŒ
@katherinetrebeck.bsky.social joins @tillk.bsky.social to explore this critical tension.

๐ŸŽง Listen now: clubofrome.podbean.com/e/building-a...

#WellbeingEconomy

27.06.2025 08:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The British "wealth exodus" is a big fat myth. Stories of the wealthy fleeing from potential wealth taxes have been pushed by consultancies who sells "golden passports" and residence visas to their wealthy clients. They have a direct stake in pushing this narrative. 1/3

23.07.2025 09:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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More than 100 NGOs warn 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza

u.afp.com/SgJo

23.07.2025 04:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Beyond Tweaks: Confronting the Economic Elephants in the Room. Keynote Speaker Dr Katherine Trebeck Includes the stand out stat that it can be cheaper to fly to London than to take the train to Glasgow โ€ฆ [19.54]

Includes the standout stat that it can be cheaper to fly to London than to take the train to Glasgow ... [19.54] Beyond Tweaks: Confronting the Economic Elephants in the Room. Keynote Speaker Dr Katherine Trebeck bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/25/b...

25.06.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Americansโ€™ electricity bills are predicted to rise by as much as 18% over the next decade, thanks to cuts to clean energy production in Trumpโ€™s big, ugly bill.

Red states are likely to see the biggest increases.

Trump put his Big Oil donors over his own voters.

14.07.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1249    ๐Ÿ” 461    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 80    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
While it is true that formal emissions accounting rules attribute the emissions created from the burning of fossil fuels to the places where these are burned, anyone who tries use this fact to entirely absolve Australia of any responsibility is either critically incompetent or critically dishonest. Most likely both.

Like the incompetent/dishonest example, more than one thing can be true at once. Australia shares responsibility for these emissions because without the endorsement of Australian governments these fossil fuels would never have been burned.

And if anyone tries to tell you that if we didnโ€™t sell them, someone else would: kindly ask them to point to which country is politely sitting on its hands with a fossil fuel reserves capable of meeting 50% of the worldโ€™s trade in metallurgical coal, one-fifth of the worldโ€™s trade in thermal coal and one-fifth of the worldโ€™s liquefied gas. If Australia didnโ€™t supply these fuels, there is no country on the planet that could replace it.

While it is true that formal emissions accounting rules attribute the emissions created from the burning of fossil fuels to the places where these are burned, anyone who tries use this fact to entirely absolve Australia of any responsibility is either critically incompetent or critically dishonest. Most likely both. Like the incompetent/dishonest example, more than one thing can be true at once. Australia shares responsibility for these emissions because without the endorsement of Australian governments these fossil fuels would never have been burned. And if anyone tries to tell you that if we didnโ€™t sell them, someone else would: kindly ask them to point to which country is politely sitting on its hands with a fossil fuel reserves capable of meeting 50% of the worldโ€™s trade in metallurgical coal, one-fifth of the worldโ€™s trade in thermal coal and one-fifth of the worldโ€™s liquefied gas. If Australia didnโ€™t supply these fuels, there is no country on the planet that could replace it.

This piece by @timinclimate.bsky.social is a complete banger. I have really never ever read such a comprehensive analysis of Australia's fossil export emissions like this, it is something else.

Go read the whole thing now --->>>

timinclimate.medium.com/australia-em...

02.07.2025 09:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 112    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Reclaiming a Policy Role for Economists Acknowledging missteps, listening well, defending data, and avoiding jargon will help the profession engage

Economists influence policy makers, but not all are equally influential: "Economists shape policy on trade, taxation, regulation &economic stability...mainstream economic expertise influences governments around the world..dominate central banks &multilateral institutions"
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

02.07.2025 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Labor accused of โ€˜gaslightingโ€™ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved โ€˜They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,โ€™ one advocate says

โ€œThe government is approving projects such that regular people like me have to pay the cost" BSCA member Angela Frimberger on the recent spate of fossil fuels developments in www.theguardian.com/environment/...

29.06.2025 03:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œGigificationโ€: The Future of Work? The fight over platform workersโ€™ rights concerns us all, writes Ben Wray.

โ€œThe algorithm does not understand labour rightsโ€

Great piece on the gig economy: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/gigification...

#WellbeingEconomy

27.06.2025 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Beyond Tweaks: Confronting the Economic Elephants in the Room. Keynote Speaker Dr Katherine Trebeck
YouTube video by Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation Beyond Tweaks: Confronting the Economic Elephants in the Room. Keynote Speaker Dr Katherine Trebeck

The Wheelton lecture I did for Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation now online:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLbL...

#WellbeingEconomy #SystemChange #UpstreamChange #SystemCompliantFixes #Assetocracy #PseudoSatisfiers

24.06.2025 23:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Meanwhile, over at the Well Being Economy Alliance, "Better indicators of success than GDP? Start with girls riding bicycles to school", H/T @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social, weall.orgh/T/

23.06.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My hiding-in-a-quiet-corner-of-the-Nash-for-an-interview-about-Scotland's-#WellbeingEconomy-efforts face.

Scrawled notes are as high tech as I get...

It's at 2 hours 3mins here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

23.06.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The thing is, if we don't continually destabilise the Middle East and make the world a less safe place, we won't need to make as many weapons, and that would be bad for the economy.

22.06.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Walking for Truth, Treaty and justice Yoorrook Justice Commissioner Travis Lovettโ€™s walk fromย Portland to the Victorian Parliament is a call to action for all Australians.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

#WalkForTruth โ€”- now for #Treaty

21.06.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not a single crate has been allowed through, despite the urgent warnings from the worldโ€™s humanitarian organisations and the screams of Palestinians. There is nothing normal about the silence in response

21.06.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 375    ๐Ÿ” 156    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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The Menace of Prosperity Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are definedโ€”or constrainedโ€”by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. ย  Many local policymakers mak...

Daniel Wortel-London, Ph.D. is a deep thinker with eyes on some of the most important questions. When he publishes a book (with such a punchy title!) it is worth taking a look at:

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

14.06.2025 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Power in our communities Read the new report from Co-operative Party and LCEF on building consensus for climate action through community energy.

REPORT ๐Ÿ”” ๐Ÿ‘‡ Power in our Communities is a new joint report from @coopparty.party.coopโ€ฌ and โ€ช@lcefuk.bsky.socialโ€ฌ, making the case that building consensus for our net zero agenda must start at a local level. party.coop/community/po...

10.06.2025 11:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Heading Upstream: Towards a Wellbeing Economy This short paper introduces key ideas and real-world examples driving a shift toward a wellbeing economy in Australia.

A little briefing paper that lays out many of the reasons why I keep talking about the need to go upstream to the workings of the economy, and some ideas about what could be better:
nexteconomy.com.au/work/heading...

10.06.2025 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Systems working against each other - Edinburgh Futures Institute Writer-at-large Katherine Trebeck reflects on how our economic systems often clash with the compassionate values people already hold.

Prevailing economic systems undermine the best of our values in "yet another instance of individualisation; when it is economic systems that are kicking against the best of peopleโ€™s values and traits. It is an example of putting the onus on individuals"
efi.ed.ac.uk/systems-work...

04.06.2025 10:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Portugal's Political Earthquake: Centrist Grip Crumbles, Right Ascends A seismic shift in Portugal's 2025 elections reflects a broader Western trend: the erosion of centrist dominance and the rise of populist forces.

"Across numerous governments today, post-Cold War neoliberal model, once promising prosperity & material well-being, but delivering only minimal social rights, is failing to meet demands...The social contract lies profoundly broken..this is a structural problem"
www.socialeurope.eu/portugals-po...

01.06.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Indications of a better world? - Earth4All New indicators to measure wellbeing are necessary for economic systems change, says Katherine Trebeck - but faced with a host of challenges to the wellbeing economy, we ensure that measurements are me...

"Would replacing GDP with different measures of progress lead to transformation of policy and more success in the building of wellbeing economies?"

Katherine Trebeck explores the role of indicators when it comes to system change. Read "Indications of a better world" โฉ earth4all.life/views/indica...

23.05.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Notes from the 2025 Wheelton Family Oration - Katherine Trebeck The Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation invited me to deliver the first Wheelton Family Oration, covering the economic elephants in the room and the need to go beyond tweaks.

This week, I delivered the first Wheelton Family Oration for the wonderful LMCF.
Itโ€™s been recorded and will be shared soon, but in the meantime, and for the TLDR (or TL Wonโ€™t Watch ๐Ÿ™‚ ) here are a few of the key points:
katherinetrebeck.com/wheelton/
#upstreamchange #wellbeingeconomy

31.05.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much Rayna!

29.05.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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