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A Common Platform

A Common Platform: Reimagining data and platforms

by Thomas Hanna, Mathew Lawrence, Nils Peters

Digital platforms have proven indispensable to how we live, work, and play. The challenge is to set principles and implement policies that liberate the democratic and enlivening potential of the platform from the logic of concentrated corporate ownership and profit maximization. read more
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Democratic by Design: A new community wealth building vision for the British economy after COVID-19

by Sarah McKinley, Miriam Brett, Mathew Lawrence

We can develop the ecosystem to reconstruct genuinely inclusive communities and grow local economic democracy in the United Kingdom. read more
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Democratizing knowledge

Democratizing knowledge: Transforming intellectual property and research and development

by Thomas Hanna, Dana Brown, Miriam Brett

We need to embed principles of democratic ownership and control to the fields of intellectual property and research and development, so that these crucial economic pillars become drivers of equity, sustainability and the common good rather than wealth inequality and concentration. read more
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Out of time

Out of Time: The case for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry

by Mark Paul, Carla Skandier, Rory Renzy

With oil prices collapsing and firms’ market values plunging, the government can once again use a policy weapon that has in the past been successful in overcoming social and economic unrest. read more
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Democratic digital infrastructure

Democratic digital infrastructure

by Mathew Lawrence, Thomas Hanna, Miriam Brett, Adrienne Buller

We need to build a digital landscape that provides world-class connection to all and is sustainable, privacy-enhancing, rights-preserving, innovative, and democratic by design. This report makes the case for democratic public ownership of the foundational digital infrastructures of the 21st century. read more
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The case for public ownership of the fossil fuel industry

The case for public ownership of the fossil fuel industry

by Johanna Bozuwa

Instead of bailing out the fossil fuel industry in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. government should assert long-term ownership and control of the industry to ensure an eventual managed phase-out of coal, oil, and gas production. read more
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A History of Nationalization in the United States: 1917-2009

by Thomas Hanna

The United States has a long and rich tradition of nationalizing private enterprise, especially during times of economic and social crisis. read more
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Public rail UK

Constructing the Democratic Public Enterprise

by Thomas Hanna, Andrew Cumbers

This response to the Labour Party’s Consultation on Democratic Public Ownership sets out the key features of what existing research and experience tells us works for creating democratic forms of public enterprise. read more
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How to create a thriving global commons economy

by Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens

Not since Marx identified Manchester’s manufacturing plants as blueprints for the new capitalist society have our political economy’s fundamentals faced a more profound transformation. As structural crises beset capitalism, a new mode of production is emerging: commons-based peer production. read more
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