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For a vigorous presentation of the core economy, see Josh Ryan-Collins, Lucie Stephens and Anna Coote, “The New Wealth of Time: How Timebanking Helps People Build Better Public Services”, New Economics Foundation, 2008. Their preferred name for it—“core economy” (rather than informal economy)—follows Edgar S. Cahn (2000), No More Throw-Away People, pp 203–204. In fact, “core economy” and “informal economy” are not quite equivalent. Core economy refers mainly to household activities, the core interactions that bring us into existence as people and on which everything else depends. Informal economy starts with this, but extends beyond—to all provision of goods and services without expectant of monetary payment.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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