Strengths-Based Economic Analysis — Living Systems Economics examination

Eleven questions. Nine of eleven passes, and you can take it again as often as you like.

What starting question distinguishes Appreciative Inquiry from conventional economics?

What is broken? What works? What is scarce? Who is to blame?
Why does the module insist strengths-based economics is not 'Pollyanna economics'?

Amplifying strengths catalyses change better than attacking weaknesses It avoids relying on empirical evidence of any kind, on the assumption that nothing else needs to change It ignores problems entirely so as to remain optimistic It assumes that every existing system already works well
In Sternin's Vietnam work, what question led to the solution?

Which poor families have well-nourished children, and what do they do differently? Which families are most to blame for their children's poor diets? How much outside food aid will the villages need each year?, so long as it appears to work in the short run What are all the underlying causes of malnutrition in these villages?
How were the positive-deviant practices spread in the Vietnam programme?

Through printed pamphlets Through new dietary regulations Through imported supplements Through cooking demonstrations
What does the module conclude from the Vietnam malnutrition story?

Outside experts must design every solution for a community The solution was already in the community, waiting to be amplified Poverty makes local solutions impossible to find or use Deficit analysis is the only truly rigorous method, according to how most people initially approach it
Which of these does the module present as evidence of the cooperative economy's scale?

A handful of small experimental firms in a few countries, whatever the surrounding context happens to be A movement confined almost entirely to agriculture Over a billion members, about a tenth of global employment A sector that reliably shrinks during every downturn
What does the example of Linux and Wikipedia illustrate in the module?

That digital goods must be privately owned in order to thrive That open collaboration always competes destructively with markets A commons of gift and contribution working alongside exchange That free products are unable to sustain themselves for long
What is the Appreciative Inquiry 'inquiry principle' as applied here?

Answers matter far more than the questions asked Systems move toward their most persistent questions Questions are neutral tools that change nothing Only deficit questions ever produce rigorous findings
A policy team asks, 'What conditions have enabled communities to build broad-based prosperity despite disadvantage?' What kind of question is this?

A deficit question A rhetorical question A generative question A statistical question
How does the module suggest monetary systems might be designed?

To be replaced entirely by barter exchange To concentrate capital in a few large banks, especially in the early stages To remain exactly as they are designed today To circulate like blood, reaching every cell
What does 'luminous' mean in Luminous Prosperity, according to the module?

Light-giving, as negentropic living systems are Brightly marketed to a wide public audience Wealthy in material terms above all else Free from all constraints and from natural limits