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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

One central challenge is that the majority of mainstream economists believe that capitalist markets can solve all (or at least most) global problems, and they contend that continual economic growth within this system is required to improve the lives of the billions of people living in poverty. But this view is certainly not universally held.

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Your greatest untapped online resource: your people

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Today I feature a guest post by Filippo Trevisan of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. I met Filippo after a recent panel discussion on social media. After I spoke, he introduced himself and told me about his research on the impact of social media on disability-focused nonprofits.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

15 Today’s economy places a premium on being able to access social networks to jump from job to job, which reinforces existing privilege, because the very definition of social networks in the job market depends on having connections in high places. This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

Going even further back, in 1977, Charles Lindblom, onetime American Political Science Association president, authored Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems , in which he argued that in capitalism, business occupies a “privileged position” that offers business elites disproportionate policy influence.