The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system..

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding….

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy..

If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in th….

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both..

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally th….

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, gove….

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because th….

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that ….

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people….

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest….

Money is a mechanism for control..

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to….

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy..

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth..

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights ….

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these finan….

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest..

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth..

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party..

Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence….