Economics for the 99 Percent in the News
Mike Sandler discusses four economic policies that have been in the news lately: Basic Income, Public Banking, Negative Interest, and QE for the People.
About
Mike Sandler
Mike Sandler is a FEASTA Trustee and climate change and sustainability professional with experience working for nonprofits and government. In 2001 Mike co-founded the Center for Climate Protection based in Sonoma County, California. Inspired by Peter Barnes and Richard Douthwaite, he has advocated for revenues from a price on carbon to be returned back to the public as a per capita dividend or share. He actively promotes CapGlobalCarbon and he has written on green monetary reform and basic income, some of which is archived on his author page on HuffPost.
Website: http://www.commons-share.orgMike Sandler has written 20 articles so far, you can find them below.
Summer Reading Recommendation: The Case for Carbon Dividends
Professor James K. Boyce's book explains why capping total global carbon emissions would put us on a path to fixing our enormous emissions problem, rather than just providing a tiny bandaid as offsets do. Review by Mike Sandler.
More Context For A Theory Of Change
"The student climate strikers are actually asking us to face facts. They are giving us an opening to admit we were wrong and to extend our hands to them to work with us to fix what we did," write Mike Sandler, who poses a few more questions about Feasta's theory of change.
Context For A Theory Of Change
Mike Sandler takes a look at some of the assumptions about society and the process of social and political change we tend to make in Feasta, and asks who are Feasta trying to convince?
California’s new Governor’s chance to become a climate dividends hero
Mike Sandler argues that Governor Newsom can "use climate dividends to make good on California’s desire for climate leadership, while making the expenditures simpler, less politicized, and more transparent" and also addressing the concerns of disadvantaged communities.
Imagining alternative letters to creditors in a basic income world
800,000 workers in the US are currently furloughed without pay due to the current conflict between Congress and the President. What impact might a basic income have on those workers? Mike Sandler suggests some possibilities.
