Our Future Depends On This!

No question about it, money in politics is destroying our democracy, corrupting our national priorities, and placing the future of our nation in jeopardy. Big money has become one of the most dangerous forces we face — and the problem is only getting worse....

Let’s Draft Our Kids

As we explore and innovate new solutions to the social and environmental problems we face, sometimes we have to think way outside the box. Where are there assets and resources laying idle, underused, or mis-deployed that could be captured to address our many...

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts by Lawrence Lessig

“There is a feeling today among too many Americans that we might not make it. Not that the end is near, or that doom is around the corner, but that a distinctly American feeling of inevitability, of greatness—culturally, economically, politically—is gone. That we have...

“The Year of Living Profitably”

That’s the headline Fortune Magazine used to describe its annual ranking of the nation’s 500 largest corporations. It certainly didn’t apply to the average American. While unemployment remained stubbornly high, the incomes of the middle class who were lucky enough to...

Giving Birth to a New Economy

The “Strategies for a New Economy” conference was held on June 8th-10th at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.   The conference was organized around ten themes that the New Economics Institute sees as essential components in transitioning to an...