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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. Little Myths on the Prairie As Quart points out, the stories children read influence the values they enact as adults. Both Musgrave and Quart are more introspective in their analysis.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing. Comprising consultants, attorneys, accountants, wealth managers, and others, this wealth defense industry employs various tools to hide wealth and avoid taxation.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The fundamental premise of the Build and Fight Formula is that we must abandon our deficit-based perspective of scale and pivot to a perspective of bounty—one that appreciates the value of a multitude of autonomous organizing projects. Unfortunately, Mayor Lumumba died, from obscure causes, on Tuesday, February 25, 2014.

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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. 13 In other words, corporate GDP is growing much faster than the economy as a whole. Empowering workers.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

And that cost of living depends not just on prices and wages but also on the value of government benefits. Taxation also did not significantly change. Indeed, this years poll has widely been called the inflation election. But too little has been written about the rising cost of living.