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Episode 13: Building the Caring Majority (w/ Sarita Gupta)

by Sarita Gupta, Dana Brown, Cecilia Gingerich

How do we organize to build a system that truly recognizes the existence and importance of care work? read more
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Community Control over Police: A Proposition

by Max Rameau

This historic moment calls for something more significant than additional training or even civilian oversight boards. read more
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Episode 10.2: The Pluralist Commonwealth (w/Gar Alperovitz)

by Gar Alperovitz, Adam Simpson

Gar Alperovitz discusses how what he calls the “pluralist commonwealth” charts a course beyond our current broken economic system. read more
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Episode 4: Darrick Hamilton on the racial wealth gap & the job guarantee

by Darrick Hamilton, Adam Simpson

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. read more
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Episode 3: Carbon tax & Social Dividends w/ Jeremiah Lowery & Camila Thorndike

by Jeremiah Lowery, Adam Simpson, Carla Skandier, Camila Thorndike

Can tax and dividend strategy simultaneously combat inequality and climate change? read more
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A delicious donut with pink frosting is used to depict the basics of Kate Raworth's 'Doughnut Economics' model.

Episode 2: Kate Raworth on ‘Doughnut Economics’

by Adam Simpson, Kate Raworth

How can a doughnut help us understand what outdated economic narratives leave out, and help us build the economics we need for the 21st century? read more
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Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction

by Gar Alperovitz

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? read more
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Commonwealth

by Gar Alperovitz

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? read more
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Community

by Gar Alperovitz

Why is community important to the pluralist commonwealth? What are institutional mechanisms aimed at undergirding rather than undermining community in a Pluralist Commonwealth? What current developments point towards the restoration of community as a central category? read more
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