beyond capitalism

Francisco  Pérez and Sarah Wang of the Center for Economic Democracy discuss the Economics for Emancipation online course.

The Business As Usual (BAU) economy has deep-seated and systemic problems. Before addressing how to make a transition to the Next Economy, it is important to understand these problems so that it is clear why this transition is needed in the first place.

An economy of production for use would grow only as fast as the population and the people's needs, making sustainability more attainable.

There has been an effort to dissociate accumulation from distribution, resulting in a contradictory and confused understanding of the relation between the two in cooperatives, with very serious practical consequences. In this chapter we examine this nexus and all its implications, demonstrating the importance of understanding accumulation as a necessary element of rational economic behavior in cooperative enterprises, and revealing the distortions caused by failing to do so.

This is the 10 December 2022 phone bank and exchange between Americans and Rojava cooperator Kraker.

A Venezuelan cooperative network that recently received the “Alternative Nobel Prize” tells its story.

A theoretical model of the "Labor Enterprise."

Essence, economic objective, and characteristics of the cooperative enterprise.Essence, economic objective, and characteristics of the cooperative enterprise.

Dru is joined by Carmen Marcuello and Anjel Errasti, authors of some interesting publications about Mondragon's expansion abroad.

The first problem that a theory of the cooperative phenomenon must address is the lack of a scientific concept of the cooperative enterprise.