Jamie Raskin @ 2640: The Emerging New Economy
Channel: Democracy Collaborative
Date: 2012-05-16

On May 7, the Baltimore Higher Education Alliance for Real Democracy and Red Emma's  brought Gar Alperovitz to Baltimore's 2640 Space  to discuss "the emerging new economy."  Joining Gar were Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, who discussed the path-breaking legislation he co-sponsored making Maryland the first state in the country to legally recognize benefit corporations or "B-corps", and the Institute for Policy Studies' Daphne Wysham, who highlighted another Maryland initiative, the Genuine Progress Indicator, a new metric that presents a comprehensive alternative to one-dimensional economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP).