Economic democracy
People and organisations who work on policies to promote economic democracy, particularly through social ownership and democratisation of finance.
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@neilwarner.bsky.social
@rbaernthaler.bsky.social
Social-ecological economist | Eco-socialist | @envleeds.bsky.social, SRI | Co-lead, Research Group: https://tiny.cc/leeds_econopol | Associate Editor: https://tiny.cc/s_spp | European Society for Ecological Economics. https://tiny.cc/leeds_profile
@mendelmatt.bsky.social
Living on the north shore of the Great Lakes. 🍁 #WeTheNorth #TrueNorthStrongAndFree #AlwaysCanada #Never51 #ElbowsUp I work to create pathways to wealth and ownership for working Canadians. #econsky #cdnpoli #cansky www.socialcapitalpartners.ca
@scpartners.bsky.social
Who owns the economy matters. We champion ideas that create pathways to wealth for working people. #econsky #canadasky #cdnpoli #alwayscanada #never51 www.socialcapitalpartners.ca Toronto, ON 🇨🇦
@dsmithwales.bsky.social
Thinker/Doer. fmr lecturer. Democracy Animator. Organiser @CoopWales, R Owen Museum trustee, ex Co-op Main Board, NPF CLP rep. Health, Food & Climate Crisis Politics. UN Yr Coops 2025 #Askforadoctor #TruthWarriors
@richardhull54.bsky.social
P/T lecturer 0.2 in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, London, + semi-retired. Views my own. Climate Justice, Stop Ecocide, Critical Management Studies, Solidarity Economy, 💙. https://www.gold.ac.uk/icce/staff/r-hull/ N🚫 DMs - you WILL be blocked
@solveigdegen.bsky.social
(she/her) - Postgraduate student in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy // RA at the Institute for Spatial and Social Ecological Transformations at WU Vienna
@franziskapaul.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Glasgow. Researching ownership and transformation. Interested in de-privatisation, democratisation, and development. Currently (re)reading Rosa Luxemburg. Beekeeper.
@davidryale.bsky.social
Writes award-winning novels about working folks organizing 4 their rights, resisting fascists, winning strikes. Pro-union, anti-racist, pro-feminist, progressive, working class outlook. Website: DavidRYale.Com. Authors Guild. #1u #BookSky #WritingCommunity
@cooperatives.bsky.social
Advocating for a democratic, equitable, and inclusive world through cooperatives, worker ownership, unions, mutual aid, and workplace democracy. 💜 People Above Profit ✊🏽 #EconomicDemocracy 🌲🌲 usworker.coop | ncbaclusa.coop | workers.coop | ica.coop
@mwpalen.bsky.social
Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list 2024. Financial Times “Best Books of 2024.”
@lukehildyard.bsky.social
Director: High Pay Centre think tank, author: 'Enough - Why it's time to abolish the super rich' Work on inequality, economic democracy, corporate power etc Book via https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348568/enough
@andrewspeke.bsky.social
Work at @highpaycentre.bsky.social on building an economy that works for all. Into politics in general, music, meditation/buddhism, comedy, China, avfc, queer stuff etc. Views my own. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
@granthayden.bsky.social
SMU Law School professor who does labor law, voting rights, and, somewhat reluctantly, corporate governance. Old man basketball player and lapsed art historian. ⚖️🏀🖼️ Recent book: https://a.co/d/6UVA0sj Other stuff: https://tinyurl.com/SMUbio
@bickerrecord.bsky.social
Past: Nurse, aid worker, social entrepreneur, councillor, governor, charity treasurer (NEON, Medact), famous blogger/essayist Present: Community energy generation schemer, well being organizer, ignored Blueskyer Future: Prophet of the New Enlightenment
@sophieflinders.bsky.social
Senior Data Analyst at Common Wealth. Interests in the political economy of health systems, green finance and financialisation of state assets
@williamcallison.bsky.social
Political theorist and Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. Political ecology and the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
@bradley-t-smith.bsky.social
MCF en études anglophones à l’Université Paris Nanterre | Associate Professor of American Studies Current research: commons, community wealth building, economic democracy, new municipalism, public action, solidarity economy
@sarahhaan.bsky.social
Law prof writing about corporate governance at the intersection of democracy. Shareholder voting rights, corporate elections, First Amendment
@hermannc.bsky.social
Political economist. UC Berkeley. Author of The Critique of Commodification. Contours of a Postcapitalist Society. Oxford University Press, 2021.
@rohangrey.bsky.social
Aussie in Portland. Ass't Law Prof @ Willamette, into money & finance, technology, political economy, culture, public governance, pedagogy etc. Formerly att'y for children, school teacher, and musician. rohangrey.net @rohangrey:matrix.org
@videotroph.bsky.social
@highpaycentre.bsky.social
An independent, non-partisan think tank focused on the causes and consequences of economic inequality, with a particular interest in top pay. highpaycentre.org/subscribe/
@futureeconscot.bsky.social
A non-partisan think tank that aims to create a new economy that is democratic, sustainable and just. https://www.futureeconomy.scot
@jamiedoucette.bsky.social
Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
@maxkoch.bsky.social
Professor in Social Policy & Sustainability, Lund University: Capitalist development & its social, environmental and welfare implications; #degrowth, sustainable #welfare. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/max-koch
@danrohde.bsky.social
Assist Prof Windsor Law | legal history of money, banking and central banking, especially in Canada | LPE/Const Approach to Money | co-ed @justmoney.bsky.social | sjd harvard law | Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2799391
@ptcherneva.bsky.social
President, Levy Economics Institute Professor, Bard College Author, The Case for a Job Guarantee https://a.co/d/gAoulSA https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/pavlina-r-tcherneva
@clesthinkdo.bsky.social
CLES is the national organisation for local economies. We're working towards a future where local economies benefit people, place and the planet. 🔗 cles.org.uk
@ellieradcliffe.bsky.social
Working at @carbon.coop on energy justice and the energy commons, former community wealth builder with a passion for all things economics and climate. About growing power ⚡ and plants 🌱 (she/her) All views my own.
@bettikohlrausch.bsky.social
Research Director at WSI (https://www.wsi.de/de/index.htm). Professor for social transformation at University of Paderborn. Research on work and social integration, anti-democratic attitudes, gender inequality, democracy at work
@profwolff.bsky.social
Professor of Economics Emeritus University of Massachusetts Founder/Director Democracy At Work #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism Follow: https://bsky.app/profile/democracyatwork.bsky.social website: www.RDWolff.com website: www.DemocracyAtWork.info
@coopparty.party.coop
The party of the UK's co-operative movement, in partnership with The Labour Party. https://party.coop
@redjen.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer UWE Bristol; macro, finance (especially pensions) and also philosophy. Previously dabbled in politics, policy, public affairs
@bbonizzi.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Hertfordshire Business School. Born in Milan, lives in London. Macro-finance: Pension funds, emerging economies, capital flows and financialisation.
@maxinefowe.bsky.social
political economist, editor @surplusmagazin.bsky.social I industrial policy, green planning, financialised capitalism
@mazzucatom.bsky.social
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose www.marianamazzucato.com
@matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social
Prof Uni Flensburg • economic history and social-ecological transformation • author of HEGEMONY OF GROWTH and THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH • opinions my own
@ewanmg.bsky.social
🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social + CBR, Cambridge 🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights 🌍Cares about economic democracy, reversing climate damage + making big tech safe 🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
@positivemoneyeu.bsky.social
We can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet. 🌍 💶 Join our newsletter 👉 https://bit.ly/3xy21xn
@migueldelaney.bsky.social
Chief football writer at the Independent. Author of 'States of Play'
@bertrussell.bsky.social
Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025) Director @abundance-org.bsky.social
@graceblakeley.substack.com
Read Vulture Capitalism ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/Grace.blakeley
@mgmcquarrie.bsky.social
Sociologist at Arizona State University. Director of the Center for Work and Democracy: cwd.asu.edu. Writing on cities, politics, governance, labor, and liberation movements.
@lmacfarlane.bsky.social
Co-director @FutureEconScot.bsky.social Fellow UCL IIPP and the Democracy Collaborative. Co-author ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’
@right0fway.bsky.social
Urban planner and researcher focused on equity, energy democracy, and climate planning. My work examines how planning practices advance, or hinder, just and sustainable futures. http://streetopias.org 📍 Detroit
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@mattbruenig.bsky.social
People's Policy Project: peoplespolicyproject.org NLRB Edge: https://www.nlrbedge.com/ The Bruenigs podcast: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs
@positivemoneyuk.bsky.social
Shifting power from big banks to people, and working to redesign our economic system for social justice and a liveable planet. positivemoney.org
@kmilb.bsky.social
Co-director of Abundance. Author of Generation Left (2019) and Radical Abundance (forthcoming). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
@craigpberry.bsky.social
Welfare policy manager, Citizens Advice (he/him). Additionally: Associate at @bennettinstitute.bsky.social | Author of The Political Economy Blog: https://craigberry.substack.com
@kpatricio.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @lawatleeds.bsky.social • External Examiner @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social • JIEL Editorial Board member • SIEL-Hart and John Jackson Prizes • LPE, global governance and the law of money, finance and sovereign debt
@dhochlaf.bsky.social
Economic Analysis and Policy Support Team Lead for the BMA. Interested in how better health can support a better economy. Views my own, and not of some defunct economist.
@cacrisalves.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
@buddyyakov.bsky.social
Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
@philippasigl.bsky.social
Co-founder & Director @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social | SPD-Direktkandidatin München-Nord für die BTW 2025 | 💌: office@dezernatzukunft.org |Personal views
@dezernatzukunft.bsky.social
We work on macrofinance going from first principles to concrete policy and try not to lose ourselves on the way. info@dezernatzukunft.org
@benbraun.bsky.social
Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
@lenorepalladino.bsky.social
economist, lawyer, organizer, mamma Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, UMass Amherst https://www.lenorepalladino.com my book: Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy, out 12/5/24
@deseanweber.bsky.social
economic democracy researcher prev: UCL IIPP + The Democracy Collaborative Arsenal FC, books, movies, and tv
@rozworski.bsky.social
Planning. Supply chains. Political economy. Live by them, die by them. Union spreadsheet monkey. Author, People's Republic of Walmart: http://amzn.to/3g6WKhf
@cthelala.bsky.social
Indian-American. Director of Energy at Center for Public Enterprise. PhD Candidate at UMass Economics. Macro + Finance + Industrial Policy + Decarbonization + Grids + Advanced Technology https://publicenterprise.org/author/chirag/
@roberthockett.bsky.social
Cornell Law School, Georgetown Business School, Westwood Capital, New Consensus. Formerly Federal Reserve Bank of New York & International Monetary Fund. Law, Philosophy & Finance Devotee. Cf. my Forbes & SSRN Pages as well as my 'Capital Futures' Website.
@stevenklein.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Theory, King's College London. Writing a global history and philosophy of unions (Allen Lane/Oxford) and PI for DERISK https://www.derisk.org.uk/
@meadwaj.bsky.social
Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social
@taglianigio.bsky.social
🇬🇧🇮🇹🇹🇭 - Dr. Tagliani joint-PhD Econ, BSc Econ Bologna, MPhil Development Uni of Cambridge. Now @UCL-IIPP Innovation, Industrial policy, SOEs, Green Transition. #NOAutonomiaDifferenziata https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/79038-giovanni-tagliani/about
@lucakokol.bsky.social
Researcher at Hamburg Institut for Social Research and PhD student at University of Amsterdam| Political Economist | interested in central banking, fiscal policy, financial regulation, green transition, critical macro finance (she/her)
@lslothuus.bsky.social
Climate, energy, political theory, social movements | Postdoc at the University of Sussex researching fossil fuel phaseouts | Visiting Fellow at LSE | PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh | www.lukasslothuus.com
@maxhsr.bsky.social
berliner | political economist | editor @surplusmagazin.bsky.social | 📧 hauser[AT]surplusmagazin.de
@iipp-ucl.bsky.social
Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
@joshwesterling.bsky.social
Policy and advocacy at Power to Change, supporting We're Right Here, the campaign for community power. Previously Jo Cox Foundation and British Future. Current home Bethnal Green, from Wycombe. West Ham ST holder. Views mine.
@nickplumb.bsky.social
Director of Policy and Insight at @powertochange.org.uk Interests include: UK politics, trust, communities, localism, democratic reform, and inequality.
@powertochange.org.uk
We are the think-do tank that backs community business. We turn bold ideas into action so communities have the power to change what matters to them. powertochange.org.uk
@jvtk.bsky.social
Political Economy, the ESG anthropocene, technocracy, legitimacy and more | “Non-profit finfluencer” | @UvA_AISSR @Politics_UvA
@jdcmedlock.bsky.social
More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
@nathantankus.bsky.social
President of Notes on the Crises Inc. (crisesnotes.com) Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books email: crisesnotes(at)gmail(dot)com Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting, not reader speculation) https://linktr.ee/crisesnotes
@dmwoodruff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE. CPE, central banks, monetary history, intellectual history of social science, Karl Polanyi, Soviet economic history, complaining about neoliberalism, etc. He/him.
@martinoneill.bsky.social
Dad of four; London-Irish turned northerner; Arsenal fan; professor of political philosophy at the University of York; trustee at the Democracy Collaborative. Writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice.
@neilmcinroy.bsky.social
Progressive economics. Working in USA, Scotland and globally. Global Lead for #communitywealthbuilding at The Democracy Collaborative Chair Economic Development Association of Scotland (EDAS)
@abenanav.bsky.social
Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso, currently: fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
@jbozuwa.bsky.social
Researching climate + economic justice. Direct Climate and Community Institute.
@nsrnicek.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at KCL. New book out in 2025: 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI'.
@julietschor.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
@cplusc.bsky.social
Climate and Community Project is a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate-inequality nexus in the US and around the world. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
@miriambrett.bsky.social
Co-Director Future Economy Scotland | Green New Deal Rising board | Common Wealth advisory panel | My own views | she/her
@publicenterprise.bsky.social
Equipping the public sector with tools to deliver more inclusive economic development. https://www.publicenterprise.org/
@advaitarun.bsky.social
finance & energy & markets & climate @ Center for Public Enterprise ☀️🏗️ • bay area / dc • advaitcore.substack.com. on twitter at @advaitarun_
@democracycollab.bsky.social
A research and development lab for the democratic economy | #communitywealthbuilding #thenextsystem | democracycollaborative.org | Washington, D.C. & Cleveland, OH
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social
We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy. http://common-wealth.org linktr.ee/common.wealth
@brusselermel.bsky.social
US Programme Director @ https://www.common-wealth.org/ | a girl can dream
@danielagabor.bsky.social
@thomasmhanna.bsky.social
Author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the US | PhD: history and theory of Democratic Public Ownership | President and founder of the Institute for a Democratic Economy and Society (IDES) | Climate and Community Institute fellow. 🇵🇸