Directing spending toward community-owned firms is a reasonable instinct. As an entire economic strategy it has a weak record, and it is worth being precise about why.A firm…
Publish the Ledger
Measurement comes before scale, not after it.A programme with no baseline cannot tell whether it worked. A city with no published numbers cannot be held to anything. Buildings…
Process what you own: five lessons from Burkina Faso and one warning
Burkina Faso restructured how its gold leaves the country. The policy reasoning transfers to a household. The propaganda around it is a lesson of its own.
How a collective takes a ghost town
A town empties because the work left. Any plan that does not start with work is decoration. The order of operations, and the trap that ends most attempts.
Sweat equity and common land: what Habitat for Humanity and East Lake Commons prove
Labour is the one asset a household short of capital already holds. Sweat equity converts it into ownership without a lender deciding first. Two Georgia examples, and two corrections.