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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. NAM, however, found a successful rebuilding and rebranding strategy in the mid-1930s as it became a central organizing arm of a movement to re-legitimize business in the eyes of the public and discredit the New Deal.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time.

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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. One of these is an effort that emerged—both within the nonprofit sector and beyond—to adopt a solidarity economics frame.