Sessions
Co-creating a new economic system that delivers social justice on a healthy planet
3:00 PM - 4:45 PM Tue
Dr. Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and ecological economist. She holds a double PhD in Economics and Sustainability Science. Hinton's work focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global sustainability challenges. Her relationship-to-profit theory uses systems thinking and institutional economics to explain how key aspects of business and markets drive social and ecological sustainability outcomes. She started developing this theory with the Post Growth Institute in the book How on Earth, which outlines a conceptual model of a not-for-profit market economy – the Not-for-Profit World model. As an activist, she collaborates with civil society organizations, businesses, and policy makers to transform the economy so that it can work for everyone within the ecological limits of the planet. She is a researcher at Lund University and a senior research fellow at the Schumacher Institute.