This compendium is a response to the essay penned by The Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP for The Monthly in February 2023.

The team at Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation was inspired by the Capitalism after the Crises topic, and decided to approach a diverse group of potential collaborators (see below) to come together around the theme. They were interested to explore what we might together as a group be able to generate by way of practical (HOW) suggestions that could support the vision and sentiment outlined in the essay.

Staff from the Centre for Systems Innovation gathered on March 16th, 2023, before and after CEDA’s lunch held that day, and also listened together to the Treasurer’s address at the event. On the day and over the intervening period, they’ve worked to develop this response. They offer this in the spirit of being ‘in conversation’ with The Monthly essay and the Treasurer’s efforts to promote a values-based capitalism agenda, potentially as an important legacy of his tenure. The team hopes to continue this conversation and offer their support to deepening and strengthening both conceptual and practical understandings of what it would take to affect systems-shifts along this trajectory.