Essential Knowledge for Transition: Financial System and Local Investing
The first in a 3-part series of teleseminars on economic transformation by Marco Vangelisti.
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How to Integrate Gift Circles into Any Community
The Gift Circle, as founded by Alpha Lo and spread by Charles Eisenstein, is a group facilitation format that holds great possibility as a way to match resources with needs, create community and inspire gratitude and generosity.
A Call to Develop a Worker Cooperative Sector in New York City
Worker co-ops have the potential to address many of the immoral and inefficient shortcomings of capitalist workplaces.
Breaking the bank
Of course, breaking apart retail and investment banking is also the only way to de-risk the banking system, as any number of sensible commentators have pointed out…
Cooperative Movement Should Embrace Discussion of Systemic Issues
Andrew McLeod recently wrote an excellent and thoughtful response to my article (with Gar Alperovitz) on Mondragón and issues of systemic design. In an effort to continue the constructive dialogue around this important topic, I offer this rejoinder.
‘Declaring victory wherever we can’
I’m fond of books that don’t claim to have The Answer but instead are useful guides in our search for answers.
SolidarityNYC
This is an exploration of their impressive model for other cities to learn from – whether they are sharing cities, solidarity cities, or regions of new economy
Cooperative Movement Should Engage Government Cautiously
Current events illustrate the potential unintended consequences of subordinating market-based cooperative organizing into economic planning…
The “Icelandic Revolution” through the eyes of a Reconomist
What is really going on Iceland? Have they been jailing bankers, creating unprecedented press freedoms and crowd sourcing their new constitution?
Collapse? Maybe not.
In a previous post I argued that economic contraction is necessary and in fact underway. Is this "Collapse" — that scary term that so many authors love to throw around?
Economic Descent, hopefully with Skillful Means
In case I don’t use sufficiently ‘skillful means,’ please let me begin with stating: I am not advocating for intentionally creating an economic crash.
The Third Revolution
My thesis is that all these things that we are describing are the seed of a new political economy, of a new system of civilization.