“It’s time female founders and female workers and female candidates abandon old cowboy ethics.
By means of democracy, we can tax income, tax wealth, tax inheritance, and give workers a say in what happens inside corporations.”
Tag: Women Unscrewing Screwnomics Series
How “Patriarchal Capitalism” Finances Systemic Agricultural Violence
Dr. Shiva, an internationally awarded physicist, has written a new book, “Oneness vs. The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom” that examines the “mechanical, military mindset” that routinely wars against a living planet and its people.
“What is eco-feminism?” she asks. “It’s taking off the blinkers of patriarchal capitalism that says nature is inert and dead, that women are dumb, and recognizing that nature and women are alive and creative.”
How Public Banking Could Make Black Lives Matter
In her new book “The Color of Money,” UCI law professor Mehrsa Baradaran says that if history is any guide, Black capital and Black banks alone will not be enough to end Black poverty. True equity will require a fundamental reworking of the U.S. banking system.
Moving Forward with Profits for Nonprofits
Dr. Melanie Rieback has bucked American business as usual by creating a profitable nonprofit business—a mutually beneficial investment that may not be so linear or individualistic and male as past business models have often been described.
Economic Growth: Who Needs It?
“We are seeing a huge wealth transfer in the CARES Act, giving benefit to private corporations, and the taxpayers will pay for it.”
While the economy collapses around us, Diamond asks: Why does a growth-pressured economy fall apart so quickly?
Want to Understand the Fed? Ask Pam or Ellen, not Janet or Jay
A financial system funded by the public for the public good, could create money as a utility for all of us on Main Street, instead of what we have now—The Fed, a profit center for the richest few on Wall Street.
Fossil Fuel Violence Demands A Righteous-Babe Response
Wall Street is going nuts: Coronavirus has unglued the global economy’s lines of supply, threatening corporate bottom lines. Then, Russia picked the perfect time to fight over oil production with OPEC. It is time to rethink fossil fuel loyalties and the wars it provokes wherever our beautiful earth is drilled, injected and fractured.
Yowling at Trump’s New CAT Policy
U.S. CAT Policy won’t regulate the surprising number of kitty videos we so love on YouTube and Facebook—nor will it urge you to get your pet spayed. But you should worry.
Daddy Warbucks Isn’t Coming to Our Rescue—But Women Economists Will
When the first ever female president of the Economic Policy Institute, Thea Lee, appeared on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, she proved that economists can be fully human and funny—and encouraging a whole flank of female economists, notably rare in this still whitest, mostly male and unfunniest realm.
It’s Time to Break Up Race and Gender Monopolies
“No one has it all figured out yet,” says La’Wana Harris about the word “diversity,” to which she’s devoted her career. “Some talk about diversity as inclusion, or diversity as equity, but I like to think diversity is also about belonging. Belonging is a big one.”