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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
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Why donate to CPE?
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CPEers on the current economic crisis
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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). |
Spring 2008 Newsletter
The Election and the Meltdown
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)
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).
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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