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Economic Democracy

Hugo, the Financial Crisis and St. Catherine of Siena

Lydia Fisher | Posted 03.20.2012 | Business
Read More: Esops, Ethics, Cinderella of Wall Street, Financial Crisis, The Just Third Way, Capitalism, Hugo, Lydia Fisher, Humanistic Capitalism, European Debt Crisis, Unemployment, Inspiration, Economic Democracy, St.Catherine of Siena, Christianity, Catholicism, Morality, Spirituality, Business News
Lydia Fisher

Can we afford to disenfranchise swaths of the population, amputating them from well-being and a productive existence from which stem self-esteem and self-reliance? The key to what ails us is like the key to Hugo's automaton, one shaped like a heart.

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Return to Mondragón

Georgia Kelly | Posted 12.10.2011 | Business
Read More: Cooperatives, Solutions to Economic Downturn, Business, Economics, Economic Democracy, Mondragón Cooperatives, Business News
Georgia Kelly

While the unemployment rate in Spain is currently around 20 percent, it is zero percent in the Mondragón Cooperatives. How do they do it?

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Six Demands the Wall Street Protesters Should Make

Keith Harrington | Posted 12.03.2011 | Business
Read More: Movement Building, Wall Street Protest, New Economy, David Korten, Occupy Wall Street, Steady-State Economy, Democracy, Employee Ownership, Economic-Democracy, Messaging, Casse, Rebellion, New York City, Business News
Keith Harrington

What the world needs to hear is an answer to the questions: "Where do we go from here? Is there a truly workable alternative to capitalism? How do we solve the myriad crises of capitalism?"

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Could Egypt Become the World's Most Advanced Democracy?

Keith Harrington | Posted 08.12.2011 | World
Read More: American Revolution, Neo-Feudalism, Egypt Revolution, Richard Wolff, David Korten, Democracy, Economic-Democracy, Local-Living-Economy, Shareholder Value, Capitalism, Corporatocracy, World News
Keith Harrington

True democracy will fail to emerge in Egypt unless its people turn their attention to one critical factor that is going largely ignored amidst all the transitional hubbub -- the economy.

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Democrats Can Show Some Moral Decency by Not Kicking Edwards Under the Bus

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dan Fowler, Poverty, Barack Obama, Economic Democracy, Love Affairs, Democratic National Convention, John Edwards, Democrats, Presidency, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Edward's much needed and almost never heard populist message didn't mark him as a threat. The bare possibility that many Americans actually got his message about poverty and neglect made him a threat.

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