Return of the Robber Barons — The Democracy Collaborative Donald Trump is promoting a false narrative of what made America’s nineteenth century industrialization so successful. Instead of supporting a regrowth of U.S. industry, the effect of Trump’s tariffs ...

Return of the Robber Barons: read Michael Hudson’s @democracycollab.bsky.social paper on Trump’s tariffs and his inverted understanding of what drove the success of America’s nineteenth-century industrial takeoff. www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/...

EDAS Community Wealth Building Video YouTube video by EDAS Scotland (EDAS)

New Scottish #communitywealthbuilding video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzb...

Join Northern Virginians for the Democratizing NOVA Summit 2025 at George Mason University!
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Scottish street scene

Last week Minister Tom Arthur told the Scottish Parliament about the irrefutable advantages of Community Wealth Building

TDC’s CWB Global Lead @neilmcinroy.bsky.social continues to promote, develop and advise on the model across Scotland

Scottish CWB legislation is due later this year

Intro to Community Wealth Building Training — The Democracy Collaborative

📝 NEW TRAINING: Introduction to Community Wealth Building

Join us to learn about Community Wealth Building as an approach to local economic system change starting in your place and/or community.

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The energy sector’s ‘Wind Rush’ risks replicating existing patterns of financialized extraction — The Democracy Collaborative The Democracy Collaborative’s Neil McInroy has recently chaired a taskforce on incorporating Community Wealth Building approaches into the devel opment of the renewable energy economy in ...

The energy sector’s ‘Wind Rush’ risks replicating existing patterns of financialized extraction.

www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/...

The energy sector’s ‘Wind Rush’ risks replicating existing patterns of financialized extraction — The Democracy Collaborative The Democracy Collaborative’s Neil McInroy has recently chaired a taskforce on incorporating Community Wealth Building approaches into the devel opment of the renewable energy economy in ...

If Community Wealth Building approaches are to continue to grow and become the foundations of a more sustainable economy, they’ll inevitably come into conflict with existing models of financialization and extraction. A look at offshore wind in Shetland: www.democracycollaborative.org/whatwethink/...

Shock and Awe: Trump’s First Hundred Days — The Democracy Collaborative Only a few days in, and already we can see the broad shape of what Trump’s Second Term will bring — a radical effort to reshape and repurpose the administrative state.

The immediate challenge is not to be shocked and awed into confusion and debilitating paralysis but instead to formulate a counter-response commensurate with the scale of the challenges and capable of reaching the vast majority of ordinary Americans. www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/shock-...

Shock and Awe: Trump’s First Hundred Days — The Democracy Collaborative Only a few days in, and already we can see the broad shape of what Trump’s Second Term will bring — a radical effort to reshape and repurpose the administrative state.

Only a few days in, and already we can see the broad shape of what Trump’s Second Term will bring — a radical effort to reshape and repurpose the administrative state. www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/shock-...

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

Sally Rooney in the Irish Times on the urgent need for a next system of political economy beyond capitalism. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Quotation from Aditya Chakrabortty: Above a truly stunning graph showing average hourly wages for blue-collar workers in the United States, Chakrabortty notes that for the vast majority of US employees—whether middle class or working class, teacher or shop assistant—wages have flatlined. Not for four or even 20 years—but for most of the past half century. Strip out inflation, and average hourly earnings for seven out of 10 employees have barely risen since Richard Nixon was in the White House. As he explains, if you start from an oligarchy where, while the rich get steadily richer, “most workers only get by because of low gas and food prices,” and then add a hefty measure of post-Covid inflation, the recipe for conflagration is complete.

Our Index of Systemic Trends, via Aditya Chakrabortty’s analysis, in The Nation magazine’s U.S. presidential election postmortem: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The 2024 Index of Systemic Trends: index.democracycollaborative.org

Scottish government backs social enterprise to ‘influence and inspire’ new community wealth building push The Scottish government is aiming for full-scale economic systems change and expects social enterprise to be at the forefront of its new economic model, according to discussions at the Social Enterpri...

“We need to build a vibrant, healthy and resilient economy, an economy that supports our people, enterprises and communities to thrive, grow and sustain. Achieving this is a huge challenge... I believe community wealth building can help us achieve this.” www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...

Community Wealth Building transforms local economies based on communities having direct ownership and control of their assets. It challenges failing economic development approaches, addressing inequality at its core. Check out our U.S. Action Guide: www.democracycollaborative.org/community-we...