S1 Ep2: Wealth from the ground up: Cooperative Finance
Mar 13, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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Episode description
In 2008, as financial markets fell into chaos, the world got an acute reminder of the limitations of the current neoliberal financial system.
We need a systemic reversal, to ensure that public resources serve people and planet, and enhance collective and individual well-being. For this to become reality, we must pursue radical but doable proposals and practices, showing how progressive (local) authorities, social movements, workers and unions, among other engaged actors, can provide democratic and diverse ownership of finances and wealth for the future we want.
Photo credit: kudumbashree.org/ (CC BY-SA 4.0)
We need a systemic reversal, to ensure that public resources serve people and planet, and enhance collective and individual well-being. For this to become reality, we must pursue radical but doable proposals and practices, showing how progressive (local) authorities, social movements, workers and unions, among other engaged actors, can provide democratic and diverse ownership of finances and wealth for the future we want.
Photo credit: kudumbashree.org/ (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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