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May 20, 2013
by Anna Springer, Shareable
As Detroit recovers from staggering unemployment due to the mass exodus of the auto industry, small business creation is now being touted by many locals as a better solution for resiliency, higher wages and employment stability than big business recruitment. But starting a new business from a …
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May 16, 2013
by Gar Alperovitz, New Economics Institute
Gar Alperovitz's keynote speech at "The Summit" at Appalachian State in Boone, NC April 2013.
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May 15, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Recent interviews with Stan Cox author of Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing and book excerpt.
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May 15, 2013
by Andreas Weber, The Wealth of the Commons
There is an all-enclosing commons-economy which has been successful for billions of years: the biosphere. Its ecology is the terrestrial household of energy, matter, beings, relationships and meanings which contains any manmade economy and only allows for it to exist. Sunlight, oxygen, drinking …
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May 7, 2013
by Katie Teague, Yes! Magazine
Is this “the most exciting time to be alive in human history”? The economists and scientists interviewed in this film think so, and the reasons are all about the chance to create a more fair and sustainable global economy.
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May 6, 2013
by Ruth Yeoman, Open Democracy
Many of us have resigned ourselves to domination in the workplace. This is an outrage. 'Meaningful work' is not only an achievable goal for all, a socialised mutual economy is beginning to emerge that may be one step towards this ideal.
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May 4, 2013
by Paul Glover, Shareable
The economy is big news, and a big worry. But there are as many economies as we need. There are global, national, regional, and neighborhood economies. There are economies for greed, destruction, and exploitation, as well as for generosity, creativity, and love. And there are as many types of …
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May 2, 2013
by Brian Davey, Feasta
The difficulty for any person who goes to another country to talk about economic and political policy is that they are almost inevitably going to be, to some degree, out of touch and out of tune with on the spot realities.
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May 2, 2013
by Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
Both political parties and both capitalism and socialism spout lots of support for “small business.” Maybe this is where we can bring the country back together again. But I put quotes around “small business” because the Census Bureau and the Small Business Administration …
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May 1, 2013
by Jules Peck, Flourishing Enterprise
Evidence shows its very clear we have reached the safe limits to growth in terms of the most pressing threat to human civilisation – that of a stable atmosphere. Therefore, until we can find a way to decouple growth from carbon emissions and reach that mythical …
