What is Wealth?
For a lot of people with money, they have wrapped their identity up in it. That is their narrative.
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NYC’s Credit Unions Give Mom-and-Pop Stores a Chance, Despite Gentrification
The story of Rossy’s Bakery exemplifies the way CDCUs are crucial actors in a city that is often inaccessible to all but the rich.
Pogonomics and Pope-onomics
The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose.
Cloth as Currency: How Goonj is creating a Parallel Cashless Economy
Clothing, a basic human right has been relegated to the status of disaster relief material,” says Anshu Gupta, founder of Goonj.
How Does Equality Impact Fairness?
Our long-term aim should be to deal with the anti-social behaviour of large, powerful, multi-national corporations which run rings round national governments and often make us all feel quite manipulated.
Advocacy Support for Worker Cooperatives
Co-ops and their support networks have been a part of the recent rise in attention paid to economic justice, and our participation has allowed us to establish unique positions to solidify gains in policy.
Land Trusts Offer Houses That People With Lower Incomes Can Afford—And a Stepping Stone to Lasting Wealth
Community land trusts diversify our concepts of property ownership.
Bringing New Economic Forms to Life
Really, when it comes down to it, we MUST completely transform our current system, for the good of the species and the planet.
Mutual Aid Networks and Local Solidarity
Stephanie Rearick and her friends and co-workers have been constructing a solidarity-based economic network in Madison, Wisconsin and beyond:
Limits to Growth: An Update
The 1972 book, Limits to Growth, is the best-selling environmental book of all time, and deservedly so.
Why Free Money Day Makes You Richer
In a world where hoarding wealth is considered the norm, giving money to complete strangers, with no strings attached, seems like a radical idea.
The Strategic Value of Developing Law for the Commons
Having surveyed a rather remarkable array of commons-based law initiatives, it is worth pausing for a moment to reflect on their significance for law, governance and politics.
