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Capitalism Has Failed: 5 Bold Ways to Build a New World

Some new ideas and big questions are defining our economic future.

If you can't visualize it, you can't manifest it. Economic visionary Gus Speth lays out the details of the world we're working for.

Humans will always work. But that whole employee-employer thing is optional. It's time to start looking for another model.

Forty-two years after the first Earth Day, the biggest environmental task -- changing our economic system -- still lies just ahead.

When the employees own the company, it changes absolutely everything.

Our capital-based economy isn't working. David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years explains why, and points to what real wealth might look like.

One in five humans on the planet are participate in cooperative businesses. Is this where our economies are headed now?

As more people have increasing time on their hands but less money, time exchanges are making a comeback.

Do the money managers not know that poor villagers are being detained, beaten and even killed to protect their investments? Or do they not care?