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Episode 4: Darrick Hamilton on the racial wealth gap & the job guarantee
On the Next System Podcast, Darrick Hamilton discusses his work as a “stratification economist” on the racial wealth gap in the US and why we need a federal job guarantee.
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Episode 3: Carbon tax & Social Dividends w/ Jeremiah Lowery & Camila Thorndike
Can tax and dividend strategy simultaneously combat inequality and climate change?
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Episode 2: Kate Raworth on ‘Doughnut Economics’
How can a doughnut help us understand what outdated economic narratives leave out, and help us build the economics we need for the 21st century?
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Bureaucracy
Why is bureaucracy problematic? What can be done in a pluralist commonwealth to minimize necessary bureaucracy? What contemporary interventions or potential interventions illustrate democratic control of large-scale entities?
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Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction
If the design of corporate capitalism is unable to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability as a matter of inherent systemic architecture, what systemic ‘design’ might ultimately achieve and sustain these values?
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Commonwealth
What does it mean to hold wealth in common? Why is wealth held in common and democratized at various scales, so important for the design of a next system? What are some examples of how “common wealth” builds a “commonwealth” today?
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