Self-distributed, 1986
WHEN the National Cooperative Bank was created by Congress in 1978, it was the object of some modest hopes. With offices thoughout the country, it would be a source of capital for new and sometimes risky cooperatives that were shunned by conventional lenders. A decade later, is a go-go…
The Washington Monthly, October 1983
SEVEN years ago, at the age of 34, I decided to become a socialist entrepreneur. It seemed like a logical calling to pursue. As a journalist, I’d flung my share of arrows at the big corporations. But if the left rejected corporate capitalism, we had to show there are some workable alternatives.
The New Republic, June 14, 1975
NOT LONG AGO a West Coast bank president mentioned to me that a piece of land he had purchased along- side a new state highway had doubled in value in a few years. His windfall is an example of what John Stuart Mill called the “unearned increment.”
The New Republic, March 15, 1975
PEOPLE HAVE two main complaints about jobs these days: there aren’t enough of them, and most of those that do exist are pretty unsatisfying.
The New Republic, August 21, 1971
FOR THE PAST year and a half I’ve been living on an old dairy ranch about fifty miles north of San Francisco. Not long ago, while I was walking with a female friend near my ranch, two armed Rangers stopped to ask who I was and where I was going.
The New Republic, July 6,1974
ANTITRUST is a criminologist’s approach to economics: it seeks to punish unwanted behavior. In addition to that, we need public competitors to giant corporations.
The New Republic, June 15, 1974
I HAD NEVER HEARD of E. F. Schumacher before reading this book. After reading it I am ready to nominate him for the Nobel Prize in economics.
The New Republic, April 13, 1974
LIKE SOME 25 MILLION Americans, I pay monthly tribute to an absentee landlord for the privilege of having a roof over my head. A good-sized portion of that is profit for banks, insurance companies, real estate agents and present and past landlords. Why?
Business and Society Review, Winter 1974
WEALTHY PERSONS in America enjoy security, privilege, power, and freedom from demeaning chores. Some of these benefits derive from wealth itself, others from its unequal distribution. It is the latter that are properly the concern of the non-wealthy.
The New Republic, December 15, 1973
ANGELENO LIFE is unthinkable without the automobile. But Washington is talking about 10 or 15 gallons weekly gasoline quotas, Sunday closing of gasoline stations, and immediate cutbacks of diesel fuel and heavy heating oil.
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