GWÖ Council in Salzburg: This is how Engelhorn's good council funds are decided!

GWÖ Council in Salzburg: This is how Engelhorn's good council funds are decided!

Ernst-Grein-Straße 14, 5026 Salzburg, Österreich - The Council of the Community Economics (GWÖ) meets on June 20 and 21, 2025 in Salzburg. The session, which takes a day and a half and is moderated professionally, has the central theme of awarding the so-called good council funds from Marlene Engelhorn. A total of 15 members of the GWÖ council were chosen by chance, including 8 entrepreneurs and 7 private individuals, to decide on the allocation of funds. The event takes place in St. Virgil Salzburg, starting the meeting on June 20, 2025 at 2:30 p.m., at the end of June 21, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Further information is available at Austria.econgood.org .

The GWÖ pursues the goal of taxing or subsidizing companies based on “common good balance sheets”. However, these balance sheets based on self -assessments could be viewed critically in practice. Critics complain that these balance sheets are difficult to measure and susceptible to manipulation. Nevertheless, the GWÖ is a concept that Christian Felber launched and tries to integrate an ethical dimension into economic considerations. The basic idea is that companies have to limit their profits and that a system of conventions and committees determines which products are considered socially or ethically valuable.

discussion about prosperity

In the context of the common good economy, an event was held in Vienna on March 28, 2025 under the title "Remember" Prosperity ", which was organized by the common good economy and Isset (WU Vienna). Almost 200 participants took part in a large ballroom of the WU Vienna to see the film "Purpose" by Martin Oetting, which addressed the criticism of the gross domestic product (GDP). Oetting emphasizes that the economy must be recognized as a problem.

During the discussion, Christian Felber underlined the inadequacies of the prevailing economic framework. He suggested a combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches to create a new common good control star. There was unity among the discussants about the need to rethink GDP as a wealthy measure, which meant that Gabriel Felbermayr from WiFo said that the economy should use for humans.

criticism and challenges of the GWÖ

Despite the positive approaches to reform the economic system, there are also important reviews of the common good economy. Critics argue that the Messtools of the GWÖ are ineffective and ignore the main causes of social problems such as unemployment and low wages. The financing of public households remains unclear, and it is doubted that the GWÖ can find far -reaching acceptance in practice. So far, small companies and cooperatives in particular have not participated in this concept.

Although companies like the Sparda Cooperative Bank Munich and Vaude partially participate, the GWÖ is also accused of acting as a marketing tool. Critics fear that this initiative could accept totalitarian trains and call for the development of an alternative economic system that can be implemented and capable of majority.

Overall, the debate about the common good economy and the upcoming council meeting shows that dealing with prosperity and the ethical dimensions of economic policy requires urgent attention. This could initiate a fundamental turn in the social perception of economy and freedom.