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Issue No: 313-314, August-September 2015

Economics for People and Earth - part 2

Auroville's total revenues 2008-2014 In December 2013, Auroville Today reported on the work done by Manuel and Henk Thomas researching the Auroville economy. Over a period of 15 years, the chartered accountant from Chennai and the professor from The Netherlands had been studying how the economy had developed in the first 40 years of Auroville’s existence. It resulted in an impressive scientific monograph, Economics for People and Earth – the Auroville Case 1968-2008, launched in October 2013. [see AVToday # 293, December 2013] Harini Sampathkumar of the Auroville Social Research Centre has now updated the work for the years 2008-2014, collecting data of all commercial units and services, the Central Fund (nowadays called City Services), and all grants and donations. She gave a presentation of her findings on June 27th. The work, said Harini in her introduction, had taken 18 months, many more than anticipated as the financial data over the years 2008-2010 were not avai...
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Issue No. 313-314, August-September 2015

  • Scenes from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
  • A Testimony to Stubborn Persistence
  • Initiators and Sustainers
  • Economics for People and Earth - part 2
  • Newcomer Housing
  • The Integral Entrepeneurship Lab
  • India, Land of Light
  • "There are many more Aurovilians in the world"
  • International Youth Day
  • Reading the Runes
  • New Books and DVDs
  • A 4000 Ladies' Special
  • Two New Land Campaigns
  •  Petra Janko (Passing)
  • Juanita Cole (Passing)
  • Brief News
  • Youth Link Takes Off
  • Auroville's Spirituality

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