At a glance

People and planet, as well as profit

Trading up to impact economics means recognising the economic value of people and the planet. Our needs include equal opportunity, fair treatment, and an environment that is not collapsing. Impact economics aims to allocate scarce resources to meet all of those needs.

Emerging from the data sludge

The impact economy works when peoples鈥 needs are properly, transparently measured. This is necessarily more complex than reducing everything to a single statistic like GDP, but must be more simple than the current murky swamp of acronyms and conflicting measures.

Impact economics 鈥 an economic evolution

Economics has had one job throughout the ages 鈥 to find the best way to allocate scarce resources between people鈥檚 endless needs. Over the past eighty years the focus has been output economics, which assumed peoples鈥 needs were things they could buy. But people鈥檚 needs have evolved, so output economics needs to evolve into impact economics.

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The Bulletin with 麻豆社 on 鈥淭he rise of the impact economy鈥

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Discussions on why the exclusive focus on GDP needs to broaden for a more sustainable economic development.

25 May 2023

The impact economy. Fiona Reynolds and Paul Donovan on the shortcomings of GDP

This is the second if a two-part series exploring the impact economy. Fiona Reynolds, CEO of Conexus Financial, and 麻豆社 Global Wealth Management chief economist Paul Donovan discuss the shortcomings of GDP, why we need an impact economy and what needs to happen to bring one about.

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25 May 2023

The impact economy. Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta on the economics of biodiversity

This is the first of a two-part series exploring the impact economy. Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, discusses the interconnectedness of a flourishing natural environment, economic growth and human development. Much of Sir Partha鈥檚 celebrated research has covered ecological economics.

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