Why Citizens and not Workers
What can help us move in the direction of a genuine social emancipation is not the passive belonging to a certain social stratum, be it economic or other, but the active stance and praxis in everyday life.
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Peter Barnes: Protect Commons Assets through ‘Universal Property’
Can property law be used to reclaim our common wealth and transform capitalism in the process? Peter Barnes, a socially minded entrepreneur and commoner, believes it can.
Things do not have to run out for their scarcity to become destabilizing
Those who say we can continuously grow the world economy without any untoward consequences like to use the canard that those of us concerned about limits have never been right about resources “running out.” But that’s not the real issue.
No Bosses by Michael Albert: review by Bridget Meehan
Read No Bosses and you will be changed. Read it and you will have hope. Read it and you will want to live in a Parsoc world. Read it and you will ask yourself, why aren’t we doing this already?
What Might an Ecosocialist Society Look Like?
Before describing possible features of a future ecosocialism, it is worthwhile to consider why such a system is even needed. Why can’t the problems that ecosocialism would solve also be remedied within the current global capitalist system?
The Global North isn’t ready for climate breakdown
In order for the global climate justice movement to be successful, leadership must come from those who have been most acutely affected by climate change.
Whither the pluriverse? Degrowth and coloniality
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
My Family’s Kansas City Story
And, maybe, the South Town Fork Creek neighborhood will eventually be seen as more of a destination, rather than somewhere you speed past on your way to and from downtown.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 54 Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric
Together, Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric address the one core question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Are There Limits to Economic Growth?
We get a startling overview of a self-directing complex system integrating economics and the physical world in Carey King’s recent book: The Economic Superorganism: Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy.
The Negative-Sum Economy
To be wealthy is to have the things you need and want, the things that support your well-being and enable you to do what you like.
Ecological Economics For Humanity’s Plague Phase (2020)
What this paper is exploring is why humanity, but more importantly the people who really should know better – the economists – can’t see the effects that we’re having on the planet.
