Our invitation is to TOGETHER REDESIGN AND REDEFINE THE ECONOMY, SO THAT IT WORKS IN SERVICE OF LIFE.

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WHY DO WE NEED ANOTHER ECONOMY?

Our current economic model is behind the multiple crises we face today, from environmental degradation and climate change to exponential inequalities, financial instability, and lack of political representation.

Without changing the current economic logic — including the values, rules, incentives, and practices that permeate it — we can at best remedy damages, but we will always be running after the losses, without getting anywhere.

We urgently need a new normal, another economy grounded in the values, rules, incentives, and practices that lead us to a genuinely prosperous and sustainable future.

Our current economic model is behind the multiple crises we face today, from environmental degradation and climate change to exponential inequalities, financial instability, and lack of political representation.

Without changing the current economic logic — including the values, rules, incentives, and practices that permeate it — we can at best remedy damages, but we will always be chasing after the losses, without overcoming them.

We urgently need a new normal, another economy grounded in the values, rules, incentives, and practices that lead us to a genuinely prosperous and sustainable future.

Our current economic model is behind the multiple crises we face today, from environmental degradation and climate change to exponential inequalities, financial instability, and lack of political representation.

Without changing the current economic logic — including the values, rules, incentives, and practices that permeate it — we may be able to remedy damage, but we will always be chasing after the loss, without making progress.

We urgently need a new normal, another economy based on the values, rules, incentives, and practices that lead us to a truly prosperous and sustainable future.

about us

Another Economy is an alliance in Brazil dedicated to redesigning and redefining the economy through transformative economic policies, cultural and educational initiatives, and the promotion of economies that prioritize good living (buen vivir), fostering systemic changes.

Another Economy is an alliance in Brazil dedicated to redesigning and redefining the economy through transformative economic policies, cultural and educational initiatives, and the promotion of economies that prioritize good living (buen vivir), fostering systemic changes.

Public policy design

We articulated political and institutional changes to reorient the goals of the economy and the structures that support harmful practices towards Good Living (Buen Vivir) outcomes.

Public policy design

We articulated political and institutional changes to reorient the goals of the economy and the structures that support harmful practices towards Good Living (Buen Vivir) outcomes.

Public policy design

We articulated political and institutional changes to reorient the goals of the economy and the structures that support harmful practices towards Good Living (Buen Vivir) outcomes.

Strengthening solutions

We support initiatives and experiments that hack our current economic model and have great leveraging potential for economic system transformation.

Strengthening solutions

We support initiatives and experiments that hack our current economic model and have great leveraging potential for economic system transformation.

Strengthening solutions

We support initiatives and experiments that hack our current economic model and have great leveraging potential for economic system transformation.

Knowledge

We conduct educational and cultural projects that mobilize other knowledge systems, narratives, and mental models to expand our imagination of what is possible.

Knowledge

We conduct educational and cultural projects that mobilize other knowledge systems, narratives, and mental models to expand our imagination of what is possible.

Knowledge

We conduct educational and cultural projects that mobilize other knowledge systems, narratives, and mental models to expand our imagination of what is possible.

Team

Marina Gattás

Co-founder and co-director

Political scientist, with a specialization in international human rights, and a master's degree in public management. Brings a systemic, transdisciplinary, and integrative perspective to transform how we live, relate, and thrive together.

Marina Gattás

Co-founder and co-director

Marina Gattás

Co-founder and co-director

Fabrício Muriana

Co-founder and co-director

Degree in Social Communication and Philosophy, master's in Social Change and Political Participation. He is a co-founder and associate of the Regenera Institute and believes that another economy will essentially depend on what we eat.

Fabrício Muriana

Co-founder and co-director

Fabrício Muriana

Co-founder and co-director

Raiana Lira

Project Manager

Specialist in social innovation design, facilitator, and as a biologist, holds a PhD in Ecology. She is an enthusiast of ancestral technologies to create experiences and systemic relationships as mechanisms for catalyzing change.

Raiana Lira

Project Manager

Raiana Lira

Project Manager

The vision of Good Living (Buen Vivir)

Good Living (Buen Vivir) is a Latin American philosophy originally known as sumak kawsay (Kichwa). Sumak can be translated as: full, beautiful, splendid, excellent; and Kawsay as: life, existence, or culture. It is also known as suma qamaña (Aymara) or nhandereko (Guarani). The concept means, in a very simplified way, "life in fullness." In 2008, good living (or buen vivir, in Spanish) was incorporated into the constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia as a principle of coexistence.

Good Living (Buen Vivir) is a Latin American philosophy originally known as sumak kawsay (Kichwa). Sumak can be translated as: full, beautiful, splendid, excellent; and Kawsay as: life, existence, or culture. It is also known as suma qamaña (Aymara) or nhandereko (Guarani). The concept means, in a very simplified way, "life in fullness." In 2008, good living (or buen vivir, in Spanish) was incorporated into the constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia as a principle of coexistence.

It is not an economic model, but rather a way of life — a worldview that understands the interdependence between all forms of life in the universe and prioritizes reciprocal, healthy, and harmonious relationships among everything and everyone, based on mutuality, sufficiency, balance, collectivity, and interculturality — and love for life.

It is not an economic model, but rather a way of life — a worldview that understands the interdependence between all forms of life in the universe and prioritizes reciprocal, healthy, and harmonious relationships among everything and everyone, based on mutuality, sufficiency, balance, collectivity, and interculturality — and love for life.

We share this way of seeing the world, which is integrated and points us in the direction of what has real purpose and meaning in life, without getting lost along the way in the obsession imposed by 'economy' and 'money', as if it were an end in itself.

We share this way of seeing the world, which is integrated and points us in the direction of what has real purpose and meaning in life, without getting lost along the way in the obsession imposed by 'economy' and 'money', as if it were an end in itself.

We start from the understanding that the challenge of manifesting a sustainable, just society that leaves the world better than we found it for future generations involves ethical, ontological, and epistemic questioning. We are heading towards an abyss and a humanitarian rebirth in which it is as urgent as it is inevitable to heal our relationships and seek other ways of being, producing, and providing.

We start from the understanding that the challenge of manifesting a sustainable, just society that leaves the world better than we found it for future generations involves ethical, ontological, and epistemic questioning. We are heading towards an abyss and a humanitarian rebirth in which it is as urgent as it is inevitable to heal our relationships and seek other ways of being, producing, and providing.

Good Living (Buen Vivir) makes us question, even, our classical notions of development and progress, as it reveals that the so-called developed countries are showing more and more signs of poor development: preventable deaths, autoimmune diseases, segregation, violence, pollution, loneliness, extinction of species and biomes, food poverty, and so on.

Good Living (Buen Vivir) makes us question, even, our classical notions of development and progress, as it reveals that the so-called developed countries are showing more and more signs of poor development: preventable deaths, autoimmune diseases, segregation, violence, pollution, loneliness, extinction of species and biomes, food poverty, and so on.

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