Our new Economic Democracy agenda is about building economic power and liberation for Black and brown people in the United States. In college, I chose to major in economics after taking my first ...
The Economic Democracy Project at Demos envisions liberation for Black and brown people. This requires us to address inequities in economic, political, and institutional power. The concept of economic ...
Recent studies on economic growth report that preventing the abuse of state power through democratic institutions is critical to a nation's development. However, there has been little prior research ...
In his new book, "Private Power and Democracy's Decline," Stanford University professor emeritus Mordecai Kurz links monopoly ...
Supporting local, community-oriented businesses is a key part of reclaiming economic democracy. The results of November’s presidential election were clear: Americans are walking into 2025 concerned ...
“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once warned. His concerns ...
Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...
Can syndicalism and the vision of economic democracy rally popular movements again? In this article, Rasmus Hästbacka of the SAC makes a historical retrospective in order to find ways forward. Is ...
Strong governance, privacy and democratic safeguards will ensure identity technologies empower citizens rather than enable ...
What’s the best way to pass on what you learned from more than a half century of left-wing doing, reading, writing, talking and thinking? Write a book. This was especially obvious to a retired ...
The fight to reclaim American democracy has to begin with our oligarchic political economy. This piece is excerpted from the author’s The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American ...
The United States has one of the oldest constitutions still in effect, but it can seem hard to find true believers. Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning, abrogating ...