Why can't everyone have well-funded schools, reliable infrastructure, wages that keep workers out of poverty, or a comprehensive public health system equipped to handle pandemics?

"Over a two-decade career in the white-collar think tank world, I’ve continually wondered: Why can’t we have nice things?

Why did Spotify and Skype start in Sweden? Because Swedish homes had government-supported broadband.

As Klarna's billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his runaway success: the Swedish welfare state.

We don't need to sacrifice prosperity, but to redefine it.

Many scientists, politicians, and commentators have disparaged degrowth as unrealistic, and asserted that there simply isn’t enough political will to pursue it. We must act on climate now, they say, and we must act within the parameters of our current economic system. There is no time for a revolution.

Where restorative justice and economic development meet

‍The Historic Clayborn Temple served as the home base for Memphis sanitation workers organizing and striking against unsafe and inhumane working conditions faced by Black garbage collectors in 1968. 

'30 years ago, thinking 'like an economist' would have been taken as good adivice. Today, not so much.'

"When it comes to crafting economic policy, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, choice, and competition have reigned supreme among policymakers for decades. Sociologist Elizabeth Popp Berman says that this style of economic reasoning—prioritizing efficiency above all else—makes good ideas seem like bad policy. She walks us through how that short-sighted style of thinking took hold in DC and explains when policymakers are right to lean on purely economic thinking—and when they should reject it in favor of prioritizing more fundamental values." - Pitchfork Economics

For big corporations, The Inflation Reduction Act “definitively changes the narrative from risk mitigation to opportunity capture.”

"Late in September, analysts at the investment bank Credit Suisse published a research note about America’s new climate law that went nearly unnoticed."

Blockchains give us the power to organize around something other than just maximizing returns for shareholders.

"Governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations just can’t seem to crack society’s biggest challenges.

'99% of humanity' is worse off due to Covid-19 while the world's 10 richest men have doubled their fortunes during the pandemic.

"In a new report titled 'Pandemic of Greed,' Oxfam offers a grave assessment of the current state of the public health emergency in an effort to bury the notion that the coronavirus is on its way out and normality is on the horizon—a rosy and potentially dangerous sentiment voiced in recent days by the leaders of rich nations and the executives of powerful pharmaceutical companies." - Jake Johnson

'The goal is people over profit, community over consumption, and resilience over recklessness.'

We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. In fact, the infallibility of the free market and the necessity of endless growth are so ingrained in the public consciousness that they seem like scientific fact.

Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.

Many industrialized countries are now struggling to grow their economies, given economic convulsions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resource scarcities and stagnating productivity improvements. Governments face a difficult situation. Their attempts to stimulate growth clash with objectives to improve human well-being and reduce environmental damage.

Transitioning businesses to employee ownership has the potential to significantly reduce the overall wealth gap as well as the racial equity gap.

For many years now, conventional solutions to income and wealth inequality—minimum wage, unions, progressive taxation, or guaranteed income—have failed to gain enough momentum to reverse the trend of greater and greater accumulation among the already well-off.

How to turn fashion waste into healthy ecosystems

"Beauty, function and non-toxic decomposition coexist in this simple flax flower. We challenge the fashion and textile industries to match that performance."