The capitalist imperative of growth for the sake of growth has often been compared to a giant squid writhing its tentacles in ever more sources of profit. Why its grip, and with what consequences?
Less is More, by Jason Hickel
“Degrowth” does not imply having less but more. More through a better pre-distribution of the economic outcome and more through expanding the boundaries of human community and consciousness.
Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon Wolin
An unprecedented combination of corporate and state power has progressively shaped itself up in the U.S. after WWII, characterized by Sheldon S. Wolin as “Inverted Totalitarianism.” What is behind this concept?
Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raworth
Can humanity thrive without destroying the planet? It all depends on our representation of the economic purpose, says Kate Raworth, an English economist working at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
The Answer to Climate Change is Democracy
Climate change signs the failure of the “free market” ideology. In the transition from old neoliberal individualism to an economy embedded in the common good of people and the planet, a new intelligence of democracy is key.
Revisiting the War on Terror
The war in Ukraine that started in February 2022 is part of Putin’s all-out war on democracy. Yet, the “War on Terror” backed for 20 years by the U.S. establishment openly revealed the demise of democracy on American soil itself.
Why Regenerative Economics is the Future
Mechanistic and detached from life’s creative web of interactions, the conventional model of economic development is failing our societies on all counts. What would an organic view of the economy look like?