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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. Mutualists do not expect governments to solve their problems for them, but Horowitz stresses that enabling public policy is necessary for mutualism to flourish.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amokā€”This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be? billion paid to more than 123,000 Indigenous people.

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasnā€™tā€”The Biden Years

NonProfit Quarterly

And that cost of living depends not just on prices and wages but also on the value of government benefits. Understanding what was achieved and where Biden and his team fell short is critical to understanding why the supposed break from corporate-dominated neoliberalism is far less than advertised. Surely, they tried.