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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, saw its membership fall from over 5,000 businesses to fewer than 1,500. After World War II, NAM was joined by the Foundation for Economics Education and the Mount Pelerin Society, named for the community near Geneva, Switzerland, where the group was founded in 1947.

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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)—Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

Doing so will no doubt require a major recruitment and education drive. Unfortunately, Mayor Lumumba died, from obscure causes, on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. 7 This date sadly lives on in infamy in Jackson’s social movement circles, because it stunted an emerging solidarity economy in Jackson and deepened our city’s water crisis.

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The Social Contract: What’s Missing in the “Historic” Biden Legislation?

NonProfit Quarterly

As Harvard economist David Deming has pointed out , “A generation ago, there was a system that helped you not take on the risk yourself to pay for college education, but society took on the risk for you by making tuition cheap…We’ve shifted the risk from society directly to the student.” Research/development, manufacturing, workforce.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with tragic results.