Research Interests

Ecospiritualities - Post-capitalist Economics - Buddhist Economics - Work and Regenerative Livelihoods - Post-growth movement - Degrowth movement - Doughnut Economics - The Work that Reconnects - Decolonizing Economics

Biography

Della Z Duncan is a Renegade Economist. Areas of her livelihood garden include hosting the Upstream Podcast, challenging mainstream economic thinking through documentaries and conversations including most recently, The Green Transition Pt 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism and Pt 2: A Green Deal for the People, supporting individuals working to better align their values with their work as a Right Livelihood Coach, helping transition businesses and organizations to more sustainable, equitable, and democratic forms as a post-capitalist consultant, and teaching and facilitating retreats and workshops on the Work that Reconnects, Systems Change, and Post-Capitalist Economics all over the world. Della is also the Course Development Manager of Fritjof Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer, a founding member of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, and a teacher of Renegade Economics and Regenerative Livelihoods at Santa Cruz Permaculture, Vital Cycles Permaculture, and Gaia Education. She holds an MA in Economics for Transition with Distinction from Schumacher College, a BA in International Relations and Sociology with highest honors from the University of California, Davis, a graduate certificate in Authentic Leadership from Naropa University, and has completed Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects Intensive Program.

Education

MA

Publications

“How to implement Doughnut Economics in your community,” article, published through Shareable (2021)

"Cultivating Right Livelihood: Work as a Spiritual Path and Vehicle for Economic Systems Change," article co-authored with Mark Phillips, published through Kosmos Journal (2019)

“Gross National Happiness: Capitalism under Buddhism in the Kingdom of Bhutan,” chapter in the book Buddhism Under Capitalism, co-authored with Barbra Clayton, Bloomsbury (2022)

The Green Transition P1: The Problem with Green Capitalism AND P2: A Green Deal for the People, Audio Documentary Series, co-produced through the Upstream Podcast, (2022)

Feminism for the 99 percent, Audio Documentary, co-produced through the Upstream Podcast (2021)

Debunking the Myth of Homo Economicus, Audio Documentary co-produced through the Upstream Podcast (2021)