Global justice, sustainability and the sharing economy
With public interest in the sharing economy on the rise, a polarisation of views on its potential benefits and drawbacks is fast becoming apparent.
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A new wave of economic innovation in Seoul
Mayor Park is leading a wave of social innovation in Seoul and opening a new chapter in the city’s history.
In search of the commons
The good thing about losing everything is that it forces you to become flexible and to search for new opportunities.
The Sharing Economy and Disaster Capitalism
Don’t you love it when the same publication carries conflicting reports about the economy, posted on the very same day?
Seizing the Moment: Catalyzing Big Growth for Worker Co-ops
Given the current groundswell of interest in cooperatives, organizers of worker cooperatives have a window of opportunity in the United States to propel our sector to the next level.
The New Economy Gets Real at CommonBound Conference this Weekend
Real talk? Something is happening on planet Earth: people are realizing that our economic traditions are unjust, unhealthy and unsustainable.
Visions of a techno-leviathan: The politics of the Bitcoin blockchain
Bitcoin sometimes appears akin to an illegal immigrant, trying to decide whether to seek out a rebellious existence in the black-market economy, or whether to don the slick clothes of the Silicon Valley establishment.
How about a REAL people’s party?
Perhaps its time for progressives to get their act in gear, dump the dead left-right, state-private dialectic and start a new party – a peoples party. A party of, by and for the people.
Cooperative Enterprise and System Change
The years since the financial crisis have been good to cooperatives.
Where should the investors divest?
The stunning success of the fossil fuel divestment movement has caught many of us off-guard.
Ethical Money and The Great Separation
In a self-serving attempt to be recognised as a science, orthodox economics treats human input to its economic models as soulless homogeneous stereotyped behaviours and values.
Putting the ‘sharing’ back in to the sharing economy
In recent years, a new kind of economy based on the age-old practice of sharing is flourishing across North America and Europe, and is now rapidly spreading in popularity throughout the Middle East and other world regions.
