Economics – Page 2 – The Mobilized News Network

September 8, 2026

How the corporation blocks real democracy

January 19, 2025 Creative Director

Corporations vs Democracy Prof. Wolff analyzes the corporation. It stands as a basic institution blocking real democracy in our society. The corporation’s structure and operations […]

Reuters Report: Who’s paying for news?

May 29, 2024 Creative Director

This report uses survey data from 20 countries and qualitative research from the United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), and Germany to explore who is […]

Community Barter Groups

February 12, 2024 Creative Director

Money Soup: A Legal Guide to Bartering, Giving, and Getting Stuff without Dollars, put together by the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Barter markets: sustaining […]

How to Start a Local Investing Group

February 12, 2024 Creative Director

Joining with others to provide capital for new or established local businesses is a great way to meet entrepreneurs in your community, strengthen relationships among […]

How to Support fundamental change of the financial system.

February 12, 2024 Creative Director

Local finance and banking alternatives can help communities and local economies, but their impacts will not be big enough to fundamentally remake the global financial […]

How to create or join a community shared resources network

February 11, 2024 Creative Director

Words: Mobilized News, Streetbank, Shareable, Local Futures Production: Mobilized News Resources: How to start a community tool share 300 Guides to help your community thrive […]

How to start a food cooperative

February 11, 2024 Creative Director

Resource: How to start a food cooperative Words: Mobilized News, Community Wealth.org, Local Futures Producer: Mobilized News

Tax Justice Network: Monopolies and Market Power

January 23, 2024 Creative Director

When dominant multinationals get to run the world, it’s not a happy place. Or a very secure one. For a long time governments have failed […]

Tax Justice Network: Spoiled Pets, Private Jets

January 23, 2024 Creative Director

In this episode Naomi Fowler looks at how the very wealthy shape the world, why the rest of us really, really can’t afford them. And, how it […]

Tax Justice Network: Who Owns the Climate Crisis?

January 23, 2024 Creative Director

We’re experiencing the hottest global temperatures ever recorded. For millions of us, the climate crisis is already hitting hard. And we need to know, we must know […]

Tax Justice Network: That War on Drugs

January 23, 2024 Creative Director

“The toughest laws created the toughest criminals. The only thing we’re doing is increasing the violence. And at this point, where we are now, only […]

Permaculture marketplace for ethical shopping

November 29, 2023 Creative Director

By Saniya Malhotra Shopping seems like a task for most people who want to embrace the permaculture approach to life. When you want to intertwine […]

Change the System & Change the Outcome

What if our crises are not separate problems? Food insecurity. Energy insecurity. War. Climate disruption. Inequality. Loss of biodiversity. Political dysfunction. Resource depletion. Broken public-health systems. Media built around outrage, distraction and consumption. We tend [...]
What if democracy didn't end at the voting booth?
What if democracy didn’t end when we left the voting booth?

From power over people and nature to shared stewardship with people and nature. Who is government supposed to serve? From governing over people and nature to governing with people — within the limits of a [...]
If finance is supposed to serve society, then success cannot be measured only by how much money money makes—it must also be measured by what that money enables people and communities to build.
What if money worked for us?

From extractive finance to ethical finance. Main Street. Not Wall Street. We work. We earn. We save. We deposit our money. Then something happens that most of us rarely think about: Our money goes to [...]
What if the mark of innovation wasn't how quickly we replace something—but how long we can keep making it better?
Built to Last: Our future isn’t disposable

What if things were built to last? From planned replacement to durability, repair, upgrade and reuse. Something breaks. We throw it away. Something slows down. We replace it. The battery dies. Buy another one. The [...]
FROM PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO PUBLIC MOBILITY.
From Public Transportation to Public Mobility

Why have we designed society so that millions of people must privately purchase an expensive machine simply to participate in daily life? The alternative is mobility as a universal public service. What if we [...]
From extraction and exploitation to local ownership, circular production and shared prosperity.
WHO OWNS WHAT THE WORLD IS MADE OF?

From extraction and exploitation to local ownership, circular production and shared prosperity. We mine it. Cut it. Pump it. Process it. Ship it halfway around the world. Turn it into products. Use those products. Throw [...]
shift from a supply chain to a supply web.
Bring Food Power Home

The big idea: The future of food should not be reduced to “buy local.” It should be about who owns the farms, processing, logistics, technology, intellectual property, data and purchasing power that determine what a community eats. [...]

What if democracy didn't end at the voting booth?

If finance is supposed to serve society, then success cannot be measured only by how much money money makes—it must also be measured by what that money enables people and communities to build.

What if the mark of innovation wasn't how quickly we replace something—but how long we can keep making it better?

FROM PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO PUBLIC MOBILITY.

From extraction and exploitation to local ownership, circular production and shared prosperity.

shift from a supply chain to a supply web.