“It’s like a radical new economy, except of course it’s an old economy that has been around forever.”
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Biden’s infrastructure plans promise not just to boost the economy, but to fundamentally redefine the role of government.
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The American Rescue Plan offers a lot of fixes to long-term issues affecting American families. That’s why they shouldn’t be allowed to expire in a year.
Because of their unorthodox ownership structures, cooperatively owned businesses don’t fit neatly into most lenders’ boxes. So one group decided to build their own source of funding.
A post-petroleum transition plan.
“Doughnut economics” invites nature
and social well-being into urban planning.
We’re in a time of global and national crises. President Biden must rise to the task.
Businesses owned by people of color are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of COVID-19. So this year, consider ditching the big corporations and opt for patronizing these small businesses instead.
There’s an easy way for Biden to help restart the U.S. economy, invest in infrastructure, and repair environmental damage: Revive the Civilian Conservation Corps.
A post-pandemic world will call for a more activist, community-centered approach to global development.
Gig workers like flexibility, but get no benefits. Employees get the reverse (usually). There’s a better way with platform cooperatives.
Prioritizing short-term profits over everything else has created a system that is consuming itself to extinction. Here’s what an economy that valued human life and the planet would look like.
A former economic hit man describes his part in setting up what he calls a “Death Economy.”
The COVID-19 outbreak is the planet’s way of telling us to do better, both in the environment and in the economy.
The Aloha State is working towards establishing a new, more equitable post-pandemic normal for vulnerable communities.
Campaign finance is part of the problem, but have you heard of the “capital strike”?
It’s all about the incentives and weighing risks: Staying home has to be more attractive than going out.
A long history of racism has prevented many Black folks from owning land or homes—making it harder to accrue wealth and pass it on to future generations.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt communities all over Mexico. But a network of Indigenous artisans is finding a way to survive during the shutdown.
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Along with community care, accountability, and the disruption of oppressive systems.
Our current economic paradigm is leading us to a world that nobody wants. To change that, we will have to invent an economics suited to the 21st century.
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