New Economy “The central economic imperative of the new economy is to amplify relationships.” Stowe Boyd calls himself a “work ecologist, iconoclast, and imperfectionist”. He leads the research group Work Futures, which explores “critical themes of the ecology of work, and the anthropology of the future”. He wrote this manifesto in 2015. If anything his prognostications seem even more relevant today. “While the coercive controls of early industrialism have gradually transitioned toward a more consensus-based managerial regime, and hierarchies have flattened, businesses remain profoundly undemocratic on the whole. Today’s late industrial form factor of work is a tailored version of its predecessor, but it is the same fabric and style. It is not as slow to change as the industrial behemoths of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s day, but today’s way is too slow and tight for the economy we are now in: the postnormal.” Article: A Manifesto for a New Way of Work