ABSTRACT
At the beginning of our journey in this book we pointed to the ‘Rodrik trilemma’ and adapted this to what we called the ‘thorny triangle’ facing Europe right now – and in a way not only Europe, but governments and businesses all over the world. It is quite obvious that a simple continuation of the way we have run our economies during the last 250 years, and especially again during the last half-century, is impossible in the long run. The results of the project to escape from poverty are impressive. But the time has come for a transition toward another type of economy in Europe as well as worldwide, an economy that is in balance with the regenerative potential of nature and that does justice to the equal dignity of humans. This implies a thorough reorientation of capitalism. This reorientation is propelled by and acquires its direction from a strong sense of the ‘why,’ a sense of the values that are at stake in our economies – the heart of the triangle.
