“Why new rules? Because the old ones don’t work any longer”.
“We make the rules and the rules make us”
“Designing rules as if community matters”.
I like those statements. While this blog focuses on Company Design the New Rules Project focuses on Community Design with the aim of supporting human scaled politics and economics. There are three guiding principles …
- Decisions are made by those who will feel the impact of those decisions.
- Communities accept responsibility for the welfare of their members and for the next generation.
- Households and communities possess or own sufficient productive capacity to generate real wealth.
Just three? Well done Newrulesians; it’s hard to be that direct. (there are seven co-op principles and six new principles for corporate design (from Corporation 20/20).
The language they feels like common cause with the aims of this blog, here snippets from their web site:
The old rules undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken our sense of community, and ignore the costs of our decisions on the next generation. [...] All human societies are governed by rules, by laws, regulations and ordinances that are a concrete expression of our values. [...] The New Rules Project identifies rules that honor a sense of place and prize rootedness, continuity and stability as well as innovation and enterprise.
Is there are area of overlap on financing and structuring local business? Maybe.