Guy Dauncey confronts the foundational myths of our current economic system, and highlights where the foundations of a more equitable and sustainable system are being built today.
It’s all too easy to see war and poverty as inevitable characteristics of civilization and, if we think that “this is as good as it gets,” to excuse ourselves from any dialogue aimed at creating change.
Trump's infrastructure plan is likely to be a giant giveaway to private investors, accelerating privatization and sticking the rest of us with the bill. In this policy brief for The Next System Project, Ellen Brown shows how approaches grounded in public banking and "qualitative easing" could save trillions while getting America the infrastructure repairs it needs.
The Next System Project is proud to announce that Co-Chair Gus Speth was recently honored with the invitation to give the prestigious David Sive Annual Memorial Lecture at Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change.
Our health system is in crisis, filled with perverse incentives, out of control costs, and deteriorating outcomes. How can new scientific understandings of the holistic and ecological basis of health inform the design of a democratized health system?
Four New Papers The third volume of papers in our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series offer visions ranging from a living Earth system and a values-based society to the democratization of wealth, focused on the US South, and the creation of worker self directed enterprises. In The New Economy: A Living Earth System Model, …
Read our new piece "Growing Justice" and dive into economist Marvin Brown's visions for a system that truly acknowledges and accounts for the violent history of our global economy.
How to "organize practical community institutions of participatory democracy and mutual aid that can take root, grow, and gradually supplant the institutions that now rule ordinary people’s lives."
In this first place undergraduate essay, Raghav Sharma charts a path out of the crisis of liberal democracy towards a renewed direct democracy grounded in everyday family and community life.
We need to focus on replacing the foundations on which gendered and systems of authoritarian domination have kept rebuilding themselves in different forms.
The fourth volume of papers in our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series offers visions ranging from participatory economics and a wellbeing economy to a green economy at community scale and a global eco-socialist democracy.
A visionary group of experts have given us the following concrete application of system change values, principles and thinking to the challenge of imagining a next system of manufacturing.
This paper by Richard Wolff, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order to facilitate an informed and comprehensive discussion of “new systems,” and as …
Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz offers an animated view of what a next system grounded in democratized ownership of the economy and rea
The Mousai House, a DC music cooperative, is an emblematic example of Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard's vision for a cooperative solidarity economy, which she details in her essay in Volume 2 of our "New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals" series.
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