Stories

Credit unions are financial cooperatives owned by their account holders and can concentrate on maximizing their impact in the community and on the financial well-being of their members. read more

Scaling impact through replication, federation, functional specialization, and/or ad-hoc association. read more

Taking public control of electric utilities and buying out fossil fuel companies remove major impediments to the green transition. read more

Fixing our monetary and banking system requires more than tweaks to an obsolete system. This book proposes an overhaul of the monetary system itself—a rethinking of what money is and how it enters the economy. Yet, implementing this level of systemic change, history shows, is not as radical as it sounds. This book looks at how our banking system really works, the inherent contradictions in the model, and why regulation has not worked to fix them. It then explores some new developments and proposes a model that bypasses exploitation for private profit, read more

Experts from both sides of the Atlantic discuss successful efforts to push back against privatization and reclaim the heritage of public ownership. read more

It’s one thing to offer a standard progressive attack against austerity with promises to increase spending to alleviate the pain caused by a deeply flawed economic system. read more

The source of investment capital can be so opaque that even the direct inheritors of it do not understand its origins. read more

The world of “realistic solutions” to climate change revolves around the sun of the free market. The problem is that the energy market is not a free market. read more

The United States is at the very bottom in many key measures of social and economic well-being, including poverty, inequality, and longevity. No wonder Americans are frustrated and angry. read more