AlterEcos: Exploring Alternatives to Currently Dominant Forms of Economic Organizing

In the wake of the global financial crisis there was a moment when everyone from media pundits and social protesters to political incumbents and financial investors were rallying to an agenda for change, but now it seems that financial matters have returned to business as usual. Despite persistent investigations into and discussions of the causes and consequences of the crisis, the mode of economic organizing that dominated the financial sector pre-crisis has not been overturned.

The present project begins from these insights, but does not seek to explain past events further. Instead, the project looks to the present in an effort to discover possible futures. Beginning from the study of conspicuous societal, regulatory, organizational, and individual alternatives, we will explore prospects for change that exist within the present economic order – not as its radical ‘Other’, but as its ‘second selves’, its AlterEcos. The project simply asks: How do alternatives to currently dominant forms of economic organizing become possible? 

The AlterEcos project is supported by the Danish Foundation Velux Fonden with 5.888.240 DKK and runs from 2016 -2019.

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The banker at the center

In collaboration with colleagues at Zealand, Academy of Technologies and Business, members of the AlterEcos team have researched the everyday experiences of bankers in local branches of small and medium-sized banks in the region of Zealand, Denmark. The results of this study are now published in a practitioner-oriented report (in Danish only).

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