A System Worth Its Salt: Economic Justice Meets Solidarity Economies
We are a species with a peculiar gift for dreaming. For centuries, we have imagined utopias, built castles in the air, and scribbled blueprints for worlds where…
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“The New Industrial State” by John Kenneth Galbraith – a review
Few economists have wielded prose as deftly as John Kenneth Galbraith, whose writing—sharp, erudite, and tinged with dry wit—made macroeconomics palatable for the lay reader. In The…
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The Paradox of Need and Opportunity: Why Time Banking Struggles to Reach Those Who Need It Most
The idea of time banking should, in theory, be a lifeline for the economically disadvantaged. It provides a way for people to exchange skills and services without…
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Exploring the Rise of Techno-feudalism and the Cloudalists by Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and prolific economist, has been vocal about the emergence of a new ruling class he terms “Cloudalists,” who preside over…
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The Coming Reckoning: Creativity, Complacency, and Collapse
In parts of the world where every meal must be earned through ingenuity, where a broken appliance isn’t replaced but repurposed, and where money is scarce but…
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The Art of Holding Fast
It is a curious thing, this modern habit of drifting. Men and women float through their days like autumn leaves upon a river, content to be carried…
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“The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It” by Will Storr – a review
Will Storr’s The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It is an incisive, often unsettling, look at one of the most fundamental forces shaping…
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Time Banking Apathy
For more than three decades, time banking has floated on the fringes of economic innovation; a well-intentioned, intellectually rigorous idea championed by the likes of Edgar Cahn…
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Are You an Indentured Servant? – No, Seriously!
Indentured servitude was once a contract entered into with the hope of escape—escape from poverty, from stagnation, from a life that promised nothing beyond mere subsistence. It…
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A Perfect Storm: The Economic Collapse of 2025-2026
The world economy is no stranger to upheaval. The Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970s, the dot-com bubble, and the 2008 financial crisis each had their…