Democracy is threatened by the inverted form of totalitarianism resulting from the free-market ideology. Is the Founding Fathers’ defiance against democracy an antecedent to its “management” today?
Less is More, by Jason Hickel
The collapse of the biosphere is engineered by an economic model geared toward making profits rather than answering human needs. What if the economy was structured to do just that?
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 your 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 people and nature’s shared destiny, a new intelligence of democracy is key.
Revisiting the War on Terror
The war in Ukraine started in February 2022 by Putin is part of his all-out war on democracy. Yet, the “War on Terror” backed for 20 years by the U.S. establishment has revealed another, deeper form of totalitarianism.
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?