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Published in: openDemocracyUKDemocratic Wealth: free e-book on building a citizens' economyopenDemocracy and Politics in Spires (hosted by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge) publishes an e-book on...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRepublicans, virtue and the values of the marketRepublicans are often accused of being inconsistent, or even incoherent, in embracing free market policies that are...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKStates of imaginationPeople at once both despise and desire the state, and unpicking the paradoxes within attitudes to the state is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'Democratic Wealth': clearing a path to the future
The left must move from sharing spoils to shared control of the economy if they are to clear a path towards the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhich republicanism are we talking about?Too narrow an interpretation of republicanism can rob us off many of the tools and insights we should now be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRepublicanism and revolutions: a tradition of theory and practiceBased on her keynote lecture at the 2013 ASEN conference at the LSE, Karma Nabulsi argues that republicanism needs...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan democrats learn from Machiavelli?Robert Jubb and Stuart White interview John McCormick about his 2011 book, Machiavellian Democracy, and ask what...
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Published in: HomeThe road from web 1.984
We are realising that the 'free' services we use online carry huge hidden costs. A totally administered society is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCitizen ownership: the lost radicalism of the centre?As wages stall or decline new methods must be found of creating a fair and democratic economy. Key to this must be a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSovereign Wealth Funds: can they be community funds?The idea that governments should invest some of their wealth for public benefit has moved from utopian dream to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDemocratising capital at scale: cooperative enterprise and beyondFaced with spiralling social, economic and environmental problems, many people are turning to economic democracy for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNorthern Italy and the republican traditionThe Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy gives an insight into how a republican economy might look in practice....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overviewOne of Britain's most distinguished political theorists on republicanism, freedom, Machiavelli, Hobbes, the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRadical VirtuesIs there a radical politics of virtue? One that can say anything useful to our own society? Yes, and it comes from...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPost-growth: a green republican economyWe live in societies with economies nested within them, nested in turn in the non-human world. A green republican...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe time is now for wealth taxes in BritainTaxing wealth is an underexplored option in the UK, given the scale of wealth inequality. A new project confronts...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKToward a generative economyWhat kind of economy is consistent with living inside a living being? This question is being answered in experiments...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA republican call for a basic incomeRepublicanism offers a persuasive guide to the political shaping of markets. A basic income could be the foundation...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEconomic justice requires more independence, not lessA republican economy should aim at maximising the genuine independence of economic actors. Only then can corruption...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKickstarting taxationThe Starbucks and Googles of this world will always find tax loopholes. We need to link taxation once again to civic...
