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| We decry the lack of caring of many economic policies and business practices. We deplore accounting practices that enable corporate officers to uncaringly, even unlawfully, enrich themselves at the expense of employee benefit plans and shareholder investments. We criticize corporate practices found in businesses such as the petrochemical and fast food industries that are uncaring of our health and our natural habitat. We recognize that there is something basically wrong with government cuts in school lunches for millions of poor children while corporations get million-dollar handouts and the wealthy get tax refunds. But why would we have caring policies and practices, when work that entails caring is not really valued in our economic system? |
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Economic rules, measures, and policies that recognize the real value of the essential work of caring for children and the elderly, keeping our families healthy, and maintaining a clean and healthy environment, are foundational to the construction of an economics that can meet the challenges we face. These economic inventions will lead to the higher valuing of caring and caretaking in our homes, schools, and workplaces, as well as to the more caring economic and social policies needed to move toward a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous world. The technological shift to a postindustrial economy offers an opportunity to reexamine and redefine what is productive work. It opens the door to identifying, developing, promoting, and testing economic inventions that recognize and reward the value of caring and caregiving work in both the market and nonmarket sectors of the economy, whether done by women or men. ACE will bring together representatives from academia, government, business, and civil society to:
In addition, focus groups will bring together small groups from a variety of backgrounds, including government officials, businesspeople, faculty and graduate students form business and economics schools, sociologists, anthropologists, homemakers, teachers, childcare workers, health professionals, and representatives of civil society such as children s, women s, environmental, and minority political action groups, to brainstorm and network. Members of these groups can then form their own focus groups as centers in their communities for disseminating information and education. This can be followed by a conference drawing from work in progress by innovative thinkers and real-life experiences with partnership economic inventions in diverse settings. For more information, see
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