Challenging a Rigged Market: Policy Tools That Enable Local Businesses to Thrive
For too long public policy has rigged the market to favor big corporations, undermining small, locally owned businesses, especially those launched by women and people of color. Now local businesses and activists across the country are working to change the rules to...
The Internet of Ownership: Cooperative Platforms for the Online Economy
As the online "sharing economy" devolves into poor labor conditions and monopolistic practices, the concept of "platform cooperativism" offers a hopeful vision for a more democratic online economy. This new wave of entrepreneurs, investors, and...
Taking Our Visions to Scale: Lessons From Abroad
Outside of the US, there are a number of powerful examples of new economies at scale. This plenary panel from CommonBound 2016 looks at a few of those international stories as we explore what economic democracy can look like at the level of a city, state, region,...
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