NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. And that meant the capitalists were losing customers and control over land.

Food 87

Food Activism Poverty Leadership 87

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Even philanthropists working on the economic issues of jobs and incomes tend to sidestep the root problem of how to strengthen an economy’s productive capabilities. Of course, it’s important that philanthropic resources allocated to what one might call the “prosperity” portfolio not be a giveaway to market actors.

Production 132

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 132

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” How is suffering at the hand of market forces a ubiquitous but uneven phenomenon? Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty.

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. Real progress seems elusive.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 139