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Capitalizing on Care
Premilla Nadasen’s Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism demonstrates how the labor of caring is a site of economic extraction.
Innovative public sector policies and programs
Premilla Nadasen’s Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism demonstrates how the labor of caring is a site of economic extraction.
In Recoding America, Barack Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer argues that the success of government policies requires better implementation of digital services for the public.
The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?
The Fight for Privacy investigates how governments and businesses violate and profit from our personal lives online.
Claire Dunning’s Nonprofit Neighborhoods examines how the US government funded the growth of—and delegated governance to—the nonprofit sector.
In their new book, Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott treat libraries as just one model of a public institution that can thrive alongside market-based options like bookstores and provide desirable benefits to society more broadly and equitably than the private sector can do alone. A book review from the Winter 2020 issue.
Katherine Newman’s Downhill From Here challenges current economic thinking by arguing that the crisis in retirement security is caused by a flawed system, not flawed humans.
When the rights and benefits of formal organization became available to all, it unleashed a new social order and greater economic dynamism.
The idea of universal basic income is more practical than it might sound.
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.