Slavery grows through addiction and debt, through dispossession when people lose self-determination. Historically, land was the foundation of freedom because it provided subsistence, surplus and right of refusal.

The next successful political movement will not sell slogans but will offer a credible plan to rebuild the country.

The guiding principle should remain simple: water is a public good. A society that leaves water safety to the luck of geography or income undermines its own stability.

The PWA was one of the core New Deal agencies created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression. Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933, the PWA was designed as a massive capital-investment program that fused public credit, engineering discipline and regional planning into a single institution. Its success offers a practical model for rebuilding the country’s foundation while avoiding the paralysis that accompanies frag

Decades of financialization and globalization hollowed out the industrial base of the U.S. economy. What good is the stock market mutual fund if you can’t turn on the lights in your house? We are in this perilous state due to the mismanagement of our political leaders of both parties. Where is the industrial leadership?

A World Built on Slavery and Opium Always Falls The modern international system was not built on neutral economic forces. The world we inherit is not a clean break from the past but a continuation of the economic structures forged during the long era of empire. The philosophy that animated the extraction that once moved silver from the Andes, opium from Bengal, silks from China, cotton from the American South and slave labor from Africa have not vanished.  Maritime ports like

Based on Leibniz’s ethics, if harmony, order and beauty are the marks of perfection, then a society full of misery and inequality is, by definition, disordered.

The health of the machine-tool sector is the most accurate barometer of a nation's physical-economic health and its potential for future growth. The United States, once a leader in machine tool manufacturing, has experienced an accelerating, fundamental, downward trend in its machine-tool sector since the mid-1960s. This decline is seen as the extinguishing of the machine-tool design principle, which, unless reversed, threatens America's future.

To diagnose this paralysis, consider the current financial structure as a massive, intricate water system, an essential infrastructure for distributing vital resources (credit) across the economic landscape.

A Nation at a Crossroads The United States stands at a precipice, confronting a systemic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the financial collapse that ushered in the Great Depression. Decades of deindustrialization, decaying infrastructure and the elevation of market speculation over productive enterprise have culminated in a national condition of managed decline. Our nation’s infrastructure grid is decrepit on all levels.  Those with the greatest skills in productive trad

Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization. Either we rebuild it (through public financing) or we decay along with it.

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt. 'The beginnings of all things are small.' – Cicero

Lincoln’s economic philosophy rested on what he called “free labor” or the belief that all honest work deserves dignity, opportunity and reward. He viewed invention and labor not as opposing forces but as partners in progress.

To secure a free and prosperous future, a people must first reclaim its capacity to produce. It must cultivate its orchard before it can enjoy its fruit.

Rebuilding the practice uniting power, production and policy. Imagination and dreams lead to ambitions oriented toward a horizon vision. The Political Economy Project was born from decades of wondering why the world is the way it is and, more importantly, how we can make it better. The Fracture At the University of Michigan, where I studied political science and philosophy, I noticed something strange. Politics and economics were treated as separate planets orbiting different

Tyrants may bend rules, rewrite codes, and build walls of steel, but they cannot command the sun to stop shining or conscience to stop stirring.

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