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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

19 While the need to employ an intersectional lens in movement work is widely acknowledged at a theoretical level, 20 actual movement activity often falls into narrower silos. This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

Going even further back, in 1977, Charles Lindblom, onetime American Political Science Association president, authored Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems , in which he argued that in capitalism, business occupies a “privileged position” that offers business elites disproportionate policy influence.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Economic inequality has given rise to calls for a new economy in which the fruits of economic activity and power are shared more equally and democratically. By SSIR Editors Democracy is under threat in many parts of the world. Philanthropy Needs to Stop Its Toxic Intellectualizing. March 16, 2023 at 9:05 a.m.