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The Field Guide to the U.S. Economy identifies over 160 important issues, holding a magnifying glass to trends affecting our everyday lives. Short, easy-to-follow presentations take you off the beaten track, well beyond Washington and Wall Street. Graphs and cartoons liven up the facts. For ordering and additional infromation click here
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Econ-atrocity: Do The Worlds
Poor Countries Finance the Rich Ones?
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By Amit Basole, Staff
Economist at the Center for Popular Economics
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008
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In the year 2000, the richest 10 per cent of the world’s
population held 85 percent of its total income and wealth.
The bottom half owned a mere 1 percent. Such glaring global
asymmetries have long justified redistribution of wealth
from the “Global North” to the “Global South”....read
more
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Why donate to CPE?
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Funding
for our work comes from the generous donations of individuals
and foundations, fees from the people who attend our Institutes,
and the organizations who sponsor our workshops.
We depend on people like you who understand that social
change does not happen overnight, it requires knowledgeable,
skilled activists.
CPE has been training organizers for over two decades.
To continue, we need your
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Summer
Institute 2008 - Chicago, IL
The CPE Summer Institute is a week-long intensive
training in economics for activists, educators,
and anyone who wants a better understanding of economics.
Our Summer Institute attracts participants from
across the U.S. and around the world.
(Click
here for more).
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Online
Summer Course 2008 - UMass
In this
online course we ask, what purpose do we want our
economy to fulfill? Is it fulfilling this purpose
today? We will also discuss various alternative
economic models rooted in principles of economic
democracy, cooperation and sustainability. We will
also talk about the care economy and the cultural,
ecological and information commons, a vast store
of social wealth that communities everywhere possess
and on which they can draw for constructing economic
alternatives to neoliberal globalization. (Click
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Spring 2008 Newsletter
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The
Election and the Meltdown
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Many expected
that this election would be about George W.
Bush:
his war, his assaults on civil liberties and
the natural environment, his inequitable fiscal
policies. Instead, a worsening economic downturn
following a near-meltdown in financial markets
has brought economic issues to the fore. This
may make 2008 a watershed election.For the
first time in decades...
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The Center for Popular Economics
and the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (SEN-US)
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The U.S. Solidarity
Economy Network grew from a series of meetings that
were held at the U.S. Social Forum. The
Solidarity Economy offers an alternative economic framework
to that of neoliberal globalization - one that is grounded
in solidarity and cooperation, rather than the pursuit
of narrow, individual self-interest.
The Solidarity Economy is a rather recent idea, but
the practice has been around for some time now. We see
it at work in labor-run cooperatives, the use of local
currency, participatory budgeting, and land trusts (just
to name a few). SEN-US, along with the CPE, sees the
concept as an important tool in promoting economic justie.
Creating a Solidarity Economy network will help foster
a sense of common identity, purpose, and support those
participating the array of projects that comprise the
Solidarity Economy movement. Around the world such networks
have been succesful in forging national policy framework,
as in the case of networks in Brazil and Canada. The
Center for Popular Economics is serving as a fiscal
sponcer and providing core staffing for the start-up
of SEN-US (The
Solidarity Economy
Network).
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Learn more about the Solidarity Economy
To learn more about the Solidarity Economy, as well as
SEN-US, take a look at the Solidarity Economy Slideshow,
an educational overview of the solidarity economy at work.
Download here: http://www.populareconomics.org/resources/Solidarity
Economy Slideshow.ppt
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