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Marjorie Kelly

Marjorie Kelly is the Senior Fellow and Executive Vice President of The Democracy Collaborative (TDC) and a leading theorist in “next-generation enterprise design.”  At Tellus Institute, Kelly cofounded Corporation 20/20 to envision and advocate enterprise designs that integrate social, environmental, and financial aims. Kelly is coauthor of The Making of a Democratic Economy (2019, Berrett-Koehler Publishers), author of Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution (2012) and The Divine Right of Capital, which was named one of Library Journal’s 10 Best Business Books of 2001.

The End of the Corporation

By Marjorie Kelly, Transnational Institute

It’s time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete. In the perilous moment we face, with the crises of the climate emergency and spiralling inequality, the time is up on corporations acting as though serving financial shareholders is their highest duty. 

  • March 2, 2020

Toward a generative economy

By Marjorie Kelly, Open Democracy

What kind of economy is consistent with living inside a living being? This question is being answered in experiments across the globe, from community forests in Mexico to "industrial symbiosis" in Denmark.

  • May 30, 2013

The economy: Under new ownership

By Marjorie Kelly, YES! magazine

Something is dying in our time. As the nation struggles to recover from unsustainable personal and national debt, stagnant wages, the damages wrought by climate change, and more, a whole way of life is drawing to a close. It began with railroads and steam engines at the dawn of the Industrial Age, and over two centuries has swelled into a corporation-dominated system marked today by vast wealth inequity and bloated carbon emissions. That economy is today proving fundamentally unsustainable. We’re hitting twin limits, ecological and financial. We’re experiencing both ecological and financial overshoot.

  • February 28, 2013

A different kind of ownership society

By Marjorie Kelly, Shanna Ratner, YES! magazine

Drive across southern Minnesota near the city of Luverne, and you’ll see clusters of wind turbines poking up through the cornfields. Climb into one of these sleek, gleaming, white towers, and you’ll find sophisticated computer controls monitoring dozens of factors every moment (wind speed, pressure on the blades, and so on). Yet the way the turbines are funded and owned is just as innovative as the technology that runs them.

  • August 4, 2010
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