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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

The rules governing the attraction of wealth to wealth are not laws of nature, nor are they immutable. Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing. Wealth is also extracted from the earth—from mining to fracking.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The practices rely on dynamics of collective care and social reproduction that are not primarily compelled by subjugation to the law of value within the capitalist system. See Amna Akbar, “Non-Reformist Reforms and Struggles over Life, Death, and Democracy,” Yale Law Journal 132, no. 8 (June 2023): 2497–577.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Research/development, manufacturing, workforce. trillion bill, which is only true if you count the $650 billion for roads and infrastructure that was already law before the bill’s passage. Taxation is mildly deflationary, since, by definition, taxes reduce the money available for consumer purchases. Long-term care.

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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. But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability.

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasn’t—The Biden Years

NonProfit Quarterly

Most notably, these included the initial 2021 American Rescue Plan COVID relief bill, the infrastructure bill , the climate bill ( Inflation Reduction Act ), and the CHIPS and Science Act (which subsidizes US-based semiconductor manufacturing). But none of these proposals became law. Taxation also did not significantly change.