A Billion Fireflies

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of economic systems, and the precariousness of the incomes and lives of people all over the world. We must ìbuild back betterî and create a more resilient economy, which is more inclusive, and more just, than our economies are. What should be the contours of the ìnew normalî, and how will we change the old normal to the new, are questions we must collectively address now, and urgently. Otherwise, the old will recreate itself, driven by the embedded ideas about good economics on which it was founded. ìNever waste a crisisî, leaders and policymakers say. A Billion Fireflies is a reminder of the ideas for a new paradigmóof what it should be and how it can be brought aboutóthat far-sighted people had proposed before the pandemic. The time has come to convert those ideals into reality.