Thomas M. Hanna is Research Director at The Democracy Collaborative, a US based research and development lab for a more democratic economy. He is author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States.
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Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion‘Broadband communism’? Outside the UK, public broadband is a raving successAround the world governments are taking the lead developing digital infrastructure. Nowhere is this more evident...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs another Europe possible?The EU is a doomsday machine generating deflation, low growth, and high unemployment – and a rising tide of far...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDon't believe the Corbyn bashers - the economic case against public ownership is mostly fantasyThough cowards flinch and traitors sneer, Jeremy Corbyn is putting public ownership back on the political agenda....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRed state, red power: Nebraska’s publicly-owned electricity systemNebraska's energy is all publicly owned, yet it blows away the myth that public ownership is inherently inefficient,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPreserving policy space in an independent ScotlandLast week’s attempts at arm-twisting Scotland over sterling and European Union membership have backfired. But an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPrivatisation, a very British diseaseBritain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness...