The Role of Money in a Civic Provisioning Economy
A “civic” economics of provision proposes that citizens—members of the civic—should work together in designing such systems.
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Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition: Food, livelihoods and bridging race & class divides
Economic resilience is multivalent, and JP is full of people with great ideas for building it.
Participatory Budgeting Gets Some Traction in the US
The success of a PB project depends a great deal on grassroots leadership and outreach.
Will Co-ops Spark a New Civil Rights Movement?
While the words “co-op” and “civil rights” do not commonly appear in the same sentence, with more than 300 cooperative and social justice activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, last weekend, the question was hard to avoid.
The Benefits and Impacts of Cooperatives
Cooperative businesses are community-owned private enterprises that combine consumers with owners, and buyers with sellers in a democratic governance structure.
Hacking the Future of Money
Brett Scott discusses how the Hacker Ethos can be a useful outlook for approaching complexity and help sharing advocates to explore a system, experiment with ways to jam its various components, or to rewire it.
Interview: The Deep Roots of African American Cooperative Economics
Through her extensive research, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles how African Americans used cooperative economic practices to help each other survive and how those practices related to the Black civil rights and economic equality movements.
Michel Bauwens Invites Pope Francis to Help the Maker Economy
Following Pope Francis’ surprisingly blunt homily about capitalism in November 2013, my friend and colleague Michel Bauwens had the brilliant idea of proposing a practical way for the Pope and Catholic Church to help address economic inequality
Evaluating your community currency
From local currencies to time banks, more and more people and organisations are setting up new forms of exchange in a bid to tackle the social, economic and environmental problems they see in their communities.
On Earth Day, an Economics for People and Planet
Much has changed since the first Earth Day in 1970. Not only have our ecological crises come into sharper focus, it has also become obvious that we need to rescue not just the Earth, but also its people from the clutches of an economy gone mad.
Millennials and the Slave Economy
Similarities abound between today’s declining civic ethos and mid nineteenth century, pre Civil War era human flesh markets starting with America’s contemporary desperation class composed of minimum wage workers toiling in America’s most praised corporations (e.g. Wal-Mart & McDonalds) who need public sector-funded food stamps to make basic ends meet.
Don’t Leave BitCoin to the Libertarians! (Or, why Your Movement Needs Open Source Money)
Among activists one often finds an aversion to even thinking about money.