In the economic world as narrated by mainstream media, politicians and media pundits, fashionable economists and philosophers, each one of us is like Alice trying to catch up the Red Queen Alice: you must run behind the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the new holy Grail of our time, without ever expecting to see the landscape move forward. But recent studies show that while the GDP of rich countries has grown over the last 40 years, indicators measuring wellbeing such as the Genuine Progress Indicator and the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare have remained stagnant in these countries. The priests of our modern times have probably not read Tim Jackson, Andrew Simms or Hervé Kempf.

Above all, they have forgotten that political and economic structures other than the ones we are often presented as models exist and work well. Together, these social, economic or political innovations gradually trace channels to exit a system that maintains a self-destructive mechanic for human life adn the support systems of the planet. Yet, few experts and politicians refer to such promising avenues. Those are called: democracy and participatory budget, cooperativism, mutualism, new indicators of wealth. They are alive and well, though scattered in different countries of the world.

In the text that follows, Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation has brought together the most promising innovations in an imaginary country he calls Goodland, a nation where values ​​of equity, social justice and sharing predominate.